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Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety in Breast Cancer Patients and its Comparison with Cervical Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Care Center

Sudeep Pal, Uday Sankar Mandal, Santanu Acharyya and Dilip Kumar Mondal
Page: 676-680 | Received 06 Jul 2023, Published online: 02 Aug 2023

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Abstract

Cancer is a series of traumatic stresses and events. Cancer patients and their families face multiple challenges in the areas of resuming and maintaining life activities, coping with treatment and side effects, managing the emotional impact and stresses and adjusting to significant long term losses and changes. To assess the difference among the two groups (Cervical cancer patient and breast cancer patient groups) and to assess the difference between quality of life among the two groups. This is a cross sectional prospective study. This study was conducted at Department of Radiotherapy in a tertiary care general hospital, R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal from 18 months. We found that in Breast Cancer, the mean HAM A score (mean±S.D.) of patients was 22.0417± 6.9644. In Cervical Cancer, the mean HAM A score (mean± S.D.) of patients was 23.5521± 6.7009. Distribution of mean HAM A score with Type of cancer was not statistically significant (p = 6.7009). Studies that focus on prevention are minimal and research covering lowand middle‐income populations is limited. Research is urgently needed into the possible impacts of long‐term and late effects of cancer treatment on mental health and how these may be prevented, as increasing numbers of people live with and beyond both Breast and cervical cancer.

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Sudeep Pal, Uday Sankar Mandal, Santanu Acharyya and Dilip Kumar Mondal. Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety in Breast Cancer Patients and its Comparison with Cervical Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Care Center.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218/makrjms.2023.676.680
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1815-9346/10.59218/makrjms.2023.676.680