BackgroundFear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is one of the greatest problems with which cancer survivors have to deal. High levels of FCR are characterized by intrusive thoughts about cancer-related events and re-experiencing these events, avoidance of…
Background: The diagnosis and treatment of cancer are potential traumatic stressors, even if the specific triggers that cause PTSD-like symptomatology are uncertain. The cancer experience embraces a long series of traumatic events, which may begin at…
Stress and high emotional situations such as complex traumas have a negative influence on the psycho – physiologic adaptive process to illness. If these experiences are not elaborated, they could be stored as dysfunctional memories causing…
Peu importe le type de cancer, cette maladie crée de l’anxiété chez les patients qui en souffrent et provoque une dépression auprès d’un tiers de la clientèle atteinte. La psycho oncologie étudie ces dimensions du cancer à partir des aspects…
