Life After Urological Cancer – Psychological Issues

摘要: About half of patients treated for urological cancer will experience some degree psychological distress and about a quarter have depression at time in their illness. Patients with prostate lower levels anxiety compared to other cancers. Psychological symptoms may be overshadowed by physical symptoms. However, useful clinical screening tests include the simple question “are you feeling down, depressed or hopeless?” questions sleep disturbance identify patients. The diagnosis helped tools such as Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) but we found analogue scales (the Emotion Thermometers) much less laborious use equally accurate. Fatigue is one most common amongst can worsened radiotherapy androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). associated Graded aerobic exercise programmes should considered suffering from fatigue rather than classical advice rest, which could detrimental. Minor degrees cognitive dysfunction particularly reduction immediate working memory are men ADT occasionally severe. Recognition treatment distress, markedly improve quality life cancer.