Management of distress in cancer patients

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-12

  Holland, Jimmie C ^a   Alici, Yesne ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Central Regional Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; ASPARAGINASE; BLEOMYCIN; CARMUSTINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CISPLATIN; CITALOPRAM; CORTICOSTEROID; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOROURACIL; HALOPERIDOL; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; MIRTAZAPINE; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; OLANZAPINE; PROCARBAZINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; ZIPRASIDONE; ZOLPIDEM; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; ANGER; ANXIETY; APPETITE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; COUNSELING; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; EMPLOYMENT; EVENING DOSAGE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FAMILY CONFLICT; FATIGUE; FEAR; GROUP THERAPY; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LIVING WILL; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NEGLECT; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANIC; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QT PROLONGATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIAL WORKER; STIGMA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUPPORT GROUP; SURVIVAL RATE; THERMOMETER; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77649215219     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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