- Preface
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Screening Instruments
- Chapter 2 Pharmacological Interventions
- Chapter 3 Nonpharmacological Interventions
- Chapter 4 Psychiatric Emergencies
- Chapter 5 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 6 Mood Disorders
- Chapter 7 Cognitive Disorders
- Chapter 8 Substance Abuse
- Chapter 9 Personality Disorders
- Chapter 10 Fatigue
- Chapter 11 Pain
- Chapter 12 Nausea and Vomiting
- Chapter 13 Sexual Dysfunction
- Chapter 14 Strategies for Giving Bad News
- Chapter 15 Supporting Parents with Cancer: Screening and Psycho-education
- Chapter 16 Spiritual and Religious Communication with Patients and Families
- Chapter 17 Brain Cancer
- Chapter 18 Breast Cancer
- Chapter 19 Gastrointestinal Cancer
- Chapter 20 Genitourinary Cancer
- Chapter 21 Gynecological Cancer
- Chapter 22 Head and Neck Cancer
- Chapter 23 Hematological Cancer
- Chapter 24 Lung Cancer
- Chapter 25 Melanoma
- Appendix
- Index
(p. 45) Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter:
- (p. 45) Anxiety Disorders
- Author(s):
Alan D. Valentine
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199988730.003.0005
Cancer patients are vulnerable to anxiety in all phases of the disease experience, from screening for risk in those without documented disease, through active treatment, to life as a cancer survivor or to end-stage disease in those who do not survive. Low intensity anxiety is often self-limited and may be contained fairly easily. Anxiety is not always maladaptive and sometimes has beneficial effects, but more persistent or intense anxiety can significantly affect a patient's ability to function in all aspects of life and interfere with treatment. Chronic anxiety may result from serious medical pathology.
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- Preface
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Screening Instruments
- Chapter 2 Pharmacological Interventions
- Chapter 3 Nonpharmacological Interventions
- Chapter 4 Psychiatric Emergencies
- Chapter 5 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 6 Mood Disorders
- Chapter 7 Cognitive Disorders
- Chapter 8 Substance Abuse
- Chapter 9 Personality Disorders
- Chapter 10 Fatigue
- Chapter 11 Pain
- Chapter 12 Nausea and Vomiting
- Chapter 13 Sexual Dysfunction
- Chapter 14 Strategies for Giving Bad News
- Chapter 15 Supporting Parents with Cancer: Screening and Psycho-education
- Chapter 16 Spiritual and Religious Communication with Patients and Families
- Chapter 17 Brain Cancer
- Chapter 18 Breast Cancer
- Chapter 19 Gastrointestinal Cancer
- Chapter 20 Genitourinary Cancer
- Chapter 21 Gynecological Cancer
- Chapter 22 Head and Neck Cancer
- Chapter 23 Hematological Cancer
- Chapter 24 Lung Cancer
- Chapter 25 Melanoma
- Appendix
- Index