Cancer and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
'The truth is out about cancer. Recent research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that a third of survivors of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma experience PTSD. Now that’s just the survivors. Imagine if they counted the people who did not survive. Regardless, 37 percent of those still living reported that their PTSD symptoms persisted or even got worse after a 5-year period. What this means, and what oncologists ignore, is that emotions matter in medicine and they certainly matter when it comes to treating cancer patients.'
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