Abstracts by keywords: healthcare efforts
In Germany, around 430,000 people develop cancer every year (RKI 2010), and the incidence of cancer is constantly increasing. Improved treatment options lead to a reduction in mortality. At the same time, chronic courses of the disease are increasing. For many people, it is now possible to live longer with their cancer. Psycho-oncology as a clinical and scientific discipline has been concerned with the psychological reaction patterns to cancer and psychological comorbidities of tumor patients for many years. The prevalence of psychological disorders and stress is estimated at around 25 to 30 % in these patients (Mehnert et al. 2006, Zabora et al. 2001, Härter et al. 2001, Reich 2008, Massie 2004, CMP 2007). In the studies, anxiety disorders were found in 1 to 49 %, depressive disorders in 0 to 58%, adjustment disorders in 2 to 52 % and post-traumatic stress disorders in 0 to 35 % of cases (Mehnert et al. 2006). Pain, distress, emotional strain of grief, helplessness and hopelessness as well as impairments in health-related and general quality of life are other common side effects of cancer (Mehnert et al. 2009, Weidner et al. 2006, Stock et al. 2006, Härtl et al . 2011, Stremmel et al. 2010).