Mental health state associated with higher death rates for prostate and urological cancers
Patients with prostate, bladder or kidney cancers are at greater risk of dying if they…
Browsing: Psycho-oncology
Hormonal treatment may trigger depression in men with prostate cancer
Men who receive anti-hormonal treatment after having their prostate removed are 80% more likely to…
Doctors need to talk through treatment options better for black men with prostate cancer
Rajesh Balkrishnan, University of Virginia and Randy A. Jones, University of Virginia African-American men have…
Cancer survivors urgently need funded rehabilitation care
Jennifer Michelle Jones, University of Toronto There are now more than 17 million cancer survivors…
Cancer survivors see mostly positives in how they have changed
Two years after diagnosis, breast cancer survivors have four times more positive than negative thoughts…
Coping with cancer: Partners can reframe challenging situations
We’re often told we are responsible for our own happiness. But in challenging situations, a…
Novel app uses AI to guide and support cancer patients
Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to guide and support some 50 breast cancer patients in…
The Body Deserves Our (Compassionate) Attention
In a busy health care practice, the oncology clinician is faced with many competing demands…
Suicide risk more than quadruples for people with cancer
People with cancer are more than four times more likely to commit suicide than people…
New reference values for cancer patients’ quality of life
Researchers and practitioners across the globe frequently use the ‘EORTC’ questionnaire to measure self-reported quality…