Hassan Muneer, Fatima Altaf, Waqar Anwar.
Depression in Cancer patients of Punjab.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(1):523-5.

Background: A depressed patient may less likely to perceive cancer therapy or medication to continue his good health habits. This might typically be due to less motivation or muscular fatigues among cancer patients. Main goal to conduct this study was to find depression among Pakistani /local population. Methodology: Cross sectional was conducted on 100 cancer patients were selected for duration of one year Janurary 2016 to December 2016. The exclusion criteria include all the patients with previous or past psychological history and co-morbidities whereas all the patients who had scheduled for, chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy alone or with a combination therapy to control the stomach, breast, esophagus, lung or thyroid cancer were included. Results: One hundred cancer patients were included with the mean age of 43.6+/-12.7 years. There were 58 (58%) females and 42 (42%) males. The depression during the therapy or treatment was observed in 22% cases who had symptomatic depression during surgery, 80% during chemotherapy, and 30% in combine therapy whereas 28% mild depression during surgery 20% in chemotherapy and 28% in combination therapy. Conclusion: It is concluded that the frequency of depression is high in cancer patients and among them¸ breast and stomach cancer patients had highest prevalence of depression. Key words: Breast Cancer, Depression and anxiety, Familial system, Hospital anxiety and depression.

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