What is it about?
Between 2007 and 2010, at a cancer center in Taiwan, 5,335 newly diagnosed cancer patients representing 12 major cancer types were screened with the Distress Thermometer (DT). Of these, 1,771 (33.20%) were significantly distressed. By multivariate logistic regression, younger age, female gender, higher pain score, and disease stage, but not cancer type, were found to be associated with higher rates of distress.
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Why is it important?
The first large sample size study of cancer patients in Asian countries that shows prevalent rate and many risk factors of psychosocial distress similar to Western countries.
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This page is a summary of: Prevalence, risk factors, and the desire for help of distressed newly diagnosed cancer patients: A large-sample study, Palliative & Supportive Care, October 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1478951516000717.
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