ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2020
Advancing the science of distress screening and management in cancer care.
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- Psychosocial interventions and health-related quality of life in adults with incurable cancer: systematic review.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2025Pooled it
- Participant factors associated with psychosocial impacts of lung cancer screening: A systematic review.Cancer medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Negative automatic thoughts mediate the effects of emotion regulation on distress in women with breast and gynecological cancer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Design and Validation of an AI-Assisted Sequential Screening Framework for Psychological Distress in Glaucoma.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Health Perceptions and HRQL With Soft-Tissue Sarcoma at 12 Months Post-Op: Using the Wilson-Cleary Model to Evaluate the Measurement Properties of the RNLI and EQ-5D-3L.Journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Are breast cancer patients with low distress at diagnosis at risk of psychological symptoms later in their disease trajectory? Considerations for when to screen for distress.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2025Article
- Role of depression-mediated alterations in pro-inflammatory cytokines in carcinogenesis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
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- Foundations for a Personalized Psycho-Oncology: The State of the Art.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Validation of the Distress Thermometer as a Screening Tool for Psychosocial Distress and Resilience in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- Various types of stress and greater use of disengagement coping are associated with worse sleep disturbance in oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- Self-reported distress and problems after treatment for gynecological cancer - Correlation between a short screening tool and longer measures of anxiety/depression and health-related quality of life.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2024Article
- Collaborative depression care sensitive to the needs of underserved patients with cancer: Feasibility, acceptability and outcomes.Journal of psychosocial oncology · 2024Article
- Anticipatory Guidance: Developing a Patient Navigation Pathway to Reduce the Financial Toxicity of Cancer.Medical research archives · 2023Article
- Psychosocial distress in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy: a prospective national cohort of 1042 patients in Germany.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- A short screening tool identifying systemic barriers to distress screening in cancer care.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Given the high prevalence (30-35%) of psychosocial and psychiatric morbidity amongst cancer patients in any phase of the disease trajectory, screening for emotional problems and disorders has become mandatory in oncology. As a process, screening begins at the entry to the cancer care system and continues at clinically meaningful times, periodically during active cancer care, or when clinically indicated. The goal is to facilitate proper referral to psychosocial oncology specialists for more specific assessment and care, as well as treatment and evaluation of the response, according to the implementation of distress management guidelines. In this editorial, we will provide a non-exhaustive overview of relevant protocols, with particular reference to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Distress Management in Oncology Guidelines, and review the challenges and the problems in implementing screening, and the assessment and management of psychosocial and psychiatric problems in cancer centres and community care.
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