@article{ref1,
title="[Mental distress in cancer patients]",
journal="Masui: the Japanese journal of anesthesiology",
year="2011",
author="Ohnishi, Hideki",
volume="60",
number="9",
pages="1024-1031",
abstract="Cancer patients receive treatments while being subjected to various distresses such as matters regarding their job, household, and purpose in life, as well as therapeutic problems. Each of these is a marked stress factor, which sometimes leads to the onset of mental disorders. About half of cancer patients undergo a psychiatric diagnosis during treatment. Anxiety and/or depression for which therapeutic intervention is needed is observed in 20 to 40% of them. Mental disorders need to be managed promptly because they cause not only distress owing to mental manifestations, but also reduce patients' motivation for treatment, impair their decision-making, and increase the incidence of suicide.<p /><p>Language: ja</p>",
language="ja",
issn="0021-4892",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}