title: Common psychiatric disorders in cancer patients. I. Adjustment disorders and depressive disorders.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Razavi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stiefel
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*