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Psychological and mood disturbance associated with the diagnosis and treatment of testis cancer and other malignancies
Author(s) -
Malec James F.,
Romsaas Ellen P.,
Messing Edward M.,
Cummings Kenneth C.,
Trump Donald L.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199009)46:5<551::aid-jclp2270460502>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - psychopathology , mood , cancer , psychology , distress , clinical psychology , personality , personality disorders , cancer treatment , oncology , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology
Eighty‐seven men with testis cancer (TC) and 35 men with other cancers (OC) completed measures of mood (Profile of Mood States) and of personality and psychopathology (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory). Effects of primary disease, phase of diagnosis and treatment, locoregional vs. cytotoxic treatment, age, and marital status on these measures were examined. TC patients appeared more distressed during treatment, particularly during cytotoxic as compared to locoregional treatment, than before or after treatment, and more distressed than OC patients. Being married appeared to buffer the stress of cancer and its treatment. Although treatment, particularly cytotoxic therapy, appeared to result in transient distress, results did not offer strong evidence that cancer and its treatment typically precipitate severe psychopathology.