The cancer patient with pain: psychiatric complications and their management

Med Clin North Am. 1987 Mar;71(2):243-58. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(16)30868-9.

Abstract

The psychiatric complications most often seen in cancer are depression, anxiety, and delirium. All are more likely to occur in the cancer patient who has pain. It is important for patient comfort and quality of life to evaluate and intervene to manage the psychologic distress in the patient with cancer, especially if pain is a complication.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anxiety / diagnosis
  • Anxiety / etiology
  • Anxiety / psychology
  • Delirium / diagnosis
  • Delirium / etiology
  • Delirium / psychology
  • Depression / diagnosis
  • Depression / etiology
  • Depression / psychology
  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders / diagnosis
  • Mental Disorders / etiology
  • Mental Disorders / psychology*
  • Neoplasms / complications
  • Neoplasms / psychology*
  • Neoplasms / therapy
  • Pain / complications
  • Pain / psychology*
  • Pain Management
  • Stress, Psychological / diagnosis
  • Stress, Psychological / etiology
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology