Razavi D, Stiefel F
Service de Médecine Interne et Laboratoire d'Investigation Clinique H. J. Tagnon, (Unité de Psycho-Oncologie, et de Réhabilitation, l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Support Care Cancer. 1994 Jul;2(4):223-32. doi: 10.1007/BF00365726.
A high prevalence of adjustment and depressive disorders has been reported in oncology. These conditions are highly treatable, therefore the assumption that emotional distress is just a foreseeable and ordinary reaction to cancer had to be reviewed. Clinical presentation, etiology, assessment, and therapy of adjustment and depressive disorders are summarized in order to optimize supportive care.