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J Med Oncl Ther 2017 | Volume 2 Issue 3
Breast Cancer November 01-02, 2017 | Toronto, Canada
7th World Congress on
As survival rates have improved with advances in medical
care, the importance of psychiatric interventions
designed to assist cancer patients in dealing with diagnosis
and treatment has increased. There are four major categories
on interventions described most frequently in the literature.
These are educational techniques, behavioural training,
individual psychotherapy, and group interventions. We
have some knowledge of the effectiveness of psychological
interventions on psychiatric outcomes such as depression
and anxiety. We knowmuch less about cognitive impairment,
employment, quality of life and relationships. Even where we
have evidence, it is mostly of only moderate quality, is most
often only for breast cancer and focuses almost exclusively
on the early phase of survivorship. There is little research
into the needs of minority groups and certain cancers, such
as lung cancer and the less common cancers. Most study
samples are simply too small to give robust results. A wide
variety of measures have been used with little consistency
between studies making the combination of data across
studies problematic. Research may be needed to work out
how to implement these interventions in everyday practice.
There has been a substantial amount of research describing
many of the psychological interventions employed for the
cancer survivors. However, the quality of the evidence is
often poor, and some topics have been little examined. We
need data and robust testing of psychological interventions
in clinical trials obtained from well-designed, large-scale
studies.
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Psychological intervention in women with non-metastatic breast cancer: Cochrane review
Ghufran Jassim
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Bahrain