Anxiety and depression in young women with metastatic breast cancer: a cross-sectional study

EM Park, S Gelber, SM Rosenberg, DSE Seah… - Psychosomatics, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Young adults with cancer experience disruptions in their normal developmental
trajectories and commonly experience psychologic distress related to their diagnoses.
Young women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are at particular risk of adverse mental
health outcomes. Objective We sought to determine the prevalence of and factors
associated with anxiety and depression symptoms in young women with newly diagnosed
de novo MBC. Methods A total of 54 women with newly diagnosed de novo MBC were …