THE DEPRESSION IN CANCER PATIENTS
A REVIEW
Keywords:
depression, neoplasms, psychoneuroimmunologyAbstract
The authors' review in this article is about a possible association between depression and cancer. It shows the importance of this study in oncological individuals, since depression can appear in these patients before or after the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. Some articles show that most of these patients researched had a previous history of depression, while others showed the depression as an aggravations of cancer. Nowadays, there is the psycho immunology, which intends to study the influence of emotional factors on the imunologic sistem. According to these researches, depression can cause the deficiency of immunology, and, then, would induce cancer. That is why it is the important to evaluate the psychological aspects of the patient, considering him as a mind and body, for a possible prevention and for a better treatment.
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