SA psychiatrists call for cancer patients’ mental health to be taken seriously
‘Pain, fatigue, loss of appetite and insomnia are symptoms experienced by many patients diagnosed with cancer’
05 June 2023 - 20:20
Doctors may miss the diagnosis of depression and anxiety in cancer patients because there is a false belief that these disorders are normal when facing death, the SA Society of Psychiatrists said...
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