Breast cancer survivors may suffer psychological problems for a long time

Posted in: 10/12/2018 – 10:11Last update: 10/12/2018 – 16:06

The team reviewed data from 60 previously published studies on bad cancer patients focusing on psychological problems and cognitive and badual function difficulties after one or more years of treatment.

"There needs to be a better realization that anxiety, depression and cognitive and badual disorders are common after bad cancer and that a treatment is available," said Helena Carrera, senior researcher at the London School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Most likely to face a skip to the disease and its consequences. "

In addition to previous studies, this study, published at the National Cancer Institute, looked more closely at the potential of many mental health problems after bad cancer treatment by women.

For example, a smaller study in the research review found that the risk of anxiety among survivors was twice as high as in others and that the rate was similar for depression.

Dr. Vermonta Meyer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston, who was not part of the study, notes that the studies reviewed focus primarily on older women, while rates of anxiety and depression should be higher among young survivors.

She also e-mailed that survivors could experience severe psychological problems in the first few years after the diagnosis of the disease.

"Many studies have shown that rates of mental illness among survivors more than five years after diagnosis were very similar to overall rates (…), which means that bad cancer survivors should hope that their psychological symptoms will decrease over time, "she said. "He said.