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CA Cancer J Clin 1988; 38:133-137
doi: 10.3322/canjclin.38.3.133
© 1988 American Cancer Society
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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 38, 133-137, Copyright © 1988 by American Cancer Society

Psychiatric Treatment Of the Patient during Cancer Therapy

Peter M. Silberfarb MD1

1 Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in Hanover, New Hampshire.

In summary, the physician should view abnormal behavior in the cancer patient as an early and important diagnostic sign that an underlying medical problem (such as hypercalcemia) may be present. Depression and insomnia yield to intervention with antidepressants and hypnotics in cancer patients as readily as in noncancer patients. Finally, attentive listening is in and of itself anxiety-relieving and can go a long way toward reducing the emotional distress of people with cancer.






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