PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Adjuvant Therapy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Colorectal Cancer

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 365
• Professor: David Cox

Document Summary

Psyc 365 chapter 7 chronic & life-threatening illnesses. Chronic condiion: a condiion that doesn"t go away / get beter. Acute illness: an illness w/ a deined beginning and end. Oncology: the study & treatment of cancer. Sites of cancer: types of cancer as deined by the locaion of the tumor. Metastasized: spread (used to denote the spread of cancer: some staisics. 40% of all canadian women & 45% of men will develop cancer at some point in their lives. 1864000 cases of cancer & 75700 deaths occurred in canada in 2012. Lung cancer leading cause of cancer death. Colorectal cancer second cause for men & third for women. Paients must cope w/ aggressive treatments: physical problems. Most common physical complaints: faigue, pain, side efects of chemotherapy. Pain management is a major challenge: psyc distress. Most common psyc distress: fear & depression (10%-58% experience depression) Paient"s depression is posiively correlated w/ family caregivers" depression.