Depression affects one-third of lung cancer patients.

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About one-third of patients newly diagnosed with the most common form of lung cancer have moderate to severe symptoms of depression, a new study suggests.

For many of these patients — particularly those with severe symptoms — depression occurs in a toxic blend of high levels of anxiety, traumatic stress, impaired day-to-day functioning and significant pain and other physical symptoms, findings showed.

The results suggest doctors need to screen lung cancer patients for depression and then act to refer patients for care, said Barbara Andersen, lead author of the study and professor of psychology at The Ohio State University.

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[pegbl]

Well I wouldn't have thought it needed a professor to state the obvious!!!

[Ergendl in reply to pegbl]

True, but sometimes the powers that be need a peer reviewed research project to demonstrate the need, before they can put public money behind funding the resources needed in the conclusion.