Case report: psychological response of a woman with schizo-affective disorder on discovering she had ovarian cancer.
Studies have shown that medical illness in those with psychiatric illness often exacerbates symptoms (Hall et al., 1981). This paper reports the case of a 53-year-old Chinese American woman with schizo-affective disorder who surprisingly had a remission in psychiatric symptoms on discovering she had ovarian cancer.
Morris
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida School of Medicine, Gainesville 32610-0256, USA.
Sullivan
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D014481:United States