Psychosocial care in cancer

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-29

  Artherholt, Samantha B ^a   Fann, Jesse R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Biobehavioral; Biopsychosocial; Cancer; Chemo brain; Chemo fog; Cognition; Delirium; Depression; Distress; Health service delivery; Palliative care; Psycho oncology; Psychoneuroimmunology; Psychosocial; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LETROZOLE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY THERAPY; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; STRESS MANAGEMENT; TELETHERAPY; ANXIETY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ANXIETY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEPRESSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857725039     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-011-0246-7     Document Type: Review

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