Depression and cancer /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kissane, David W. (David William), Maj, Mario, 1953-, Sartorius, N.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley, 2011.
• Series: World Psychiatric Association.
• Subjects: Cancer > Psychological aspects.; Depression, Mental.; Depressive Disorder > etiology.; Neoplasms > complications.; Neoplasms > psychology.; Medicine.; MEDICAL > Oncology.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.; Electronic books.

Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and cancer. Depression and Cancer is devoted to the interaction between these disorders. The book examines various aspects of this comorbidity and describes how the negative consequences of depression...

Table of Contents:

• The prevalence of depression in people with cancer / Mary Jane Massie [and others]
• Psychological adaptation, demoralisation, and depression in people with cancer / David M. Clarke
• Biology of depression and cytokines in depression / Dominique L. Musselman [and others]
• Recognition of depression and methods of depression screening in people with cancer / Steven D. Passik, Amy E. Lowery
• Impact of depression on treatment adherence and survival from cancer / M. Robin DiMatteo, Kelly B. Haskard-Zolnierek
• Suicide and desire for hastened death in people with cancer / William Breitbart, Hayley Pessin, Elissa Kolva
• Pharmacotherapy of depression in people with cancer / Luigi Grassi [and others]
• Psychotherapy for depression in cancer and palliative care / David W. Kissane [and others]
• Depression and cancer : the role of culture and social disparities / Christoffer Johansen, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton, Permille Envold Bidstrup.