DEPRESSION AND CANCER

Depression in people diagnosed with cancer

Cancer is a common disease . Although one can not speak of a concrete psychopathological profile in cancer patients , multiple emotional reactions in the disease process occurring in the individual. Anxiety and depression are the most common .In the health services has been observed connections between medical illness and psychological morbidity. The biological situation in some chronic diseases produces psychological symptoms than confused with the medical condition. A proportion of cancer patients develop psychiatric disorders following the diagnosis of cancer and requires treatment, because exist premorbidly or the increased strain as a result of the disease and its treatment.