Cancer Blog Posts

• Psychiatric illnesses and some chronic physical illnesses are associated with an increased risk of self-harm and suicide

  18 Feb 2014

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Systematic review highlights a lack of evidence about using antidepressants to treat cancer patients with depression

  06 Dec 2013

  • Gozde Ozakinci

  
• #MindfulnessMonday – Mindfulness proves effective in depression and anxiety, but is not superior to traditional CBT

  14 Oct 2013

  • Elly O'Brien

  
• Depression and anxiety in long-term cancer survivors compared with spouses and healthy controls: what about the impact of gender?

  19 Aug 2013

  • Gozde Ozakinci

  
• Lower rates of cervical and breast screening found in Canadian population study

  07 Aug 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Systematic review exposes the lack of evidence for psychosocial interventions in patients with head and neck cancer

  31 Jul 2013

  • Douglas Badenoch

  
• Healthy Active Lives (HeAL): tackling premature death in young people with psychosis

  19 Jun 2013

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Limited evidence suggests that co-morbid chronic physical illness may not increase risk for recurrence in depression

  13 Jun 2013

  • Gozde Ozakinci

  
• Alcohol consumption accounted for 19,500 cancer deaths in the US in 2009

  01 May 2013

  • Marcus Munafo

  
• Female family caregivers found to lack knowledge of need for breast and cervical screening for women with learning disabilities

  03 Apr 2013

  • John Northfield