Do rates of mental disorders and existential distress among advanced stage cancer patients increase as death approaches?

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-61

  Lichtenthal, Wendy G ^a   Nilsson, Matthew ^b   Zhang, Baohui ^b   Trice, Elizabeth D ^b   Kissane, David W ^a   Breitbart, William ^a   Prigerson, Holly G ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Existential distress; Mental disorders; Oncology; Proximity to death; Terminal illness awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TIME OF DEATH; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONNECTICUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL; TEXAS;

EID: 64249167608     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1371     Document Type: Article

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