ReviewCancers2024
Sex Differences in Anxiety and Depression Conditions among Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Patient Education to Reduce Anxiety Among Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy Procedure: A Systematic Review of Interventional Studies.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2026Pooled it
- Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Ostomy Intestinal Stoma According to Sex and Ostomy Permanence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International wound journal · 2026Pooled it
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- Psychobiotics Ameliorate Depression and Anxiety Status in Surgical Oncology Patients: Results from theNutrients · 2025Trial
- Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression and Their Association with Health-Related Quality of Life Among Oncology Patients in Iraq: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Network analysis of symptoms and psychological distress in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss.Medicine · 2026Article
- Frequency and Timing of Depression and Anxiety Diagnoses Following Cancer Diagnosis: A Multi-Center Cohort Study.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Analysing Emotional Well-Being in Cancer Patients: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Correlating Text with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Scores.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Article
- Initial assessments by psycho-oncologists: predictors of distress and support needs.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2026Article
- The impact of fear of cancer recurrence on anxiety and depression in women with cancer: The chain mediating roles of financial toxicity and psychological distress - A multicenter investigative study.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- Proportion and Correlates of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Psychiatry-Assessed Oncology Inpatients.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Anxiety and depression in patients with hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies: Influence of disease stage and psychosocial factors.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mental Health Challenges in Cancer Patients: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Depression and Anxiety.Cancers · 2024Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life in Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients Prior to First Outpatient Chemotherapy: A Cross-Sectional Study.SAGE open nursingArticle
- Social Issues and Emotional Distress amongst Patients with Cancer Receiving Palliative Care in a Tertiary Cancer Centre.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
(1) Background: Evidence suggested inconsistent results in anxiety and depression scores among female and male cancer patients. The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess how anxiety and depression conditions among cancer patients vary according to sex. (2) Methods: This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA). The protocol was registered in PROSPERO with id no. CRD42024512553. The search strategy involved combining keywords using Boolean operators, including "Anxiety", "Cancer", and "Depression", across several databases: Embase, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. The outcomes were evaluated using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). (3) Results: Data were collected from five studies, enrolling a total of 6317 cancer patients, of whom 2961 were females and 3356 males. For each study, HADS-A and HADS-D scores were considered, also differentiating HADS scores according to cancer typology, and then three different meta-analyses were performed. Generally, females reported significantly higher levels of depression scores than males and, conversely, males reported significantly greater levels of anxiety than females. (4) Conclusions: Previous studies suggested higher rates of depression and anxiety conditions in females than in males, but the present data highlighted controversial findings, since males reported significantly higher levels of anxiety than females. In this scenario, the theoretical approach justified females being more open than males to expressing anxiety or depression conditions. It would be necessary for healthcare professionals to improve effective measures purposed at assessing and mitigating depressive symptoms in cases of advanced cancer, thereby improving their mental health, given the high rates of depression in advanced cancer patients, due to the difficulty level of performing their daily living activities, which deteriorate further over time.
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