TY - JOUR
T1 - The connection between the psychological condition of breast cancer patients and survival
T2 - A follow-up after eight years
AU - Gilbar, Ora
PY - 1996/7
Y1 - 1996/7
N2 - Forty breast cancer patients (Stages I, II) were interviewed in 1984. Eight years later, in 1992, 8 of the 40 women had died in the intervening period of time, another 7 women had developed bone metastases, and the remaining 25 women had no evidence of disease. The main findings of this study indicate that the physiological distress, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism, as well as the Global Severity Index (GSI), of the eight patients who died during the 8 years following diagnosis were more severe at the time of diagnosis than that of the patients who survived. Moreover, the findings indicate that severity of anxiety may predict length of survival.
AB - Forty breast cancer patients (Stages I, II) were interviewed in 1984. Eight years later, in 1992, 8 of the 40 women had died in the intervening period of time, another 7 women had developed bone metastases, and the remaining 25 women had no evidence of disease. The main findings of this study indicate that the physiological distress, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism, as well as the Global Severity Index (GSI), of the eight patients who died during the 8 years following diagnosis were more severe at the time of diagnosis than that of the patients who survived. Moreover, the findings indicate that severity of anxiety may predict length of survival.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0030200284&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0163-8343(96)00023-0
DO - 10.1016/0163-8343(96)00023-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 8832261
AN - SCOPUS:0030200284
SN - 0163-8343
VL - 18
SP - 266
EP - 270
JO - General Hospital Psychiatry
JF - General Hospital Psychiatry
IS - 4
ER -
