Acute tamoxifen-induced depression and its prevention with venlafaxine

Psychosomatics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 162-165

  Looper, Karl ^a   Bourque, Francois ^b   Karama, Sherif ^b   Cohen, Victor ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GOSERELIN; PAROXETINE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIAPHORESIS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE DUCTAL CARCINOMA; MOOD CHANGE; MOOD DISORDER; NERVOUSNESS; PANIC; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66749105730     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.50.2.162     Document Type: Letter

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