Review article

Psycho-oncological approach to breast cancer patients

Iva Ivančić Ravlić orcid.org/0000-0003-4292-7421 ; Department of Physchiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Nearly three-quarters of patients with breast cancer have some form of depression. The main cause of the depression is fear, often lifelong, concerning the diagnosis of cancer itself, eventual recurrence, appearence of metastases, final outcome of the desease, but also the possible surgical mutilationof the patient and possible genetic transmission of malignant desease to the offsprings. The high incidence of mental disorders in patients with malignant diseases requires the inclusion of psychiatrist
in the therapy team. This could ameliorate the patients quality of life and influence the kind of therapy applied, as well as the final outcome of the disease.

Keywords

psycho-oncology; liaison psychiatry; breast cancer; mental disturbances

Hrčak ID:

199189

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/199189

Publication date:

29.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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