Antidepressant Does Not Improve Symptoms In Advanced Cancer Patients Without Major Depression

Depression

In ordinary conversation, nearly any mood with some element of sadness may be called “depressed”. However, for depression to be termed clinical depression it must reach criteria which are generally accepted by clinicians; it is more than just a temporary state of sadness. Generally, when symptoms last two weeks or[...]

Scientists develop new tool to help cancer patients in coping with their disease

Innovations Report: A tool to detect depression in cancer patients launched by the University of Liverpool will vastly improve patients’ ability to come to terms with their disease. Depression affects 25% of patients with advanced cancer – the stage at which the disease has begun to spread from its original tumour.[...]

Clinical Depression

Clinical Depression is a health condition of depression with mental and physical components reaching criteria generally accepted by clinicians. Although nearly any mood with some element of sadness may colloquially be termed a depression, clinical depression is more than just a temporary state of sadness. Symptoms of clinical depression[...]

Hyperthyroid

Another common grouping of symptoms of thyroid problems, Hyperthyroidism (thyrotoxicosis or “fast thyroid gland”) is the clinical syndrome caused by an excess of circulating free thyroxine (T4) and free triiodothyronine (T3), or both. Major causes in humans are Graves’ disease (the most common etiology with 70-80%), toxic thyroid adenoma, toxic[...]

Combining PET, CT Scans Can Improve Ovarian Cancer Care

Combining positron emission tomography (PET) and CT scans can help doctors detect more sites of disease in women with recurrent ovarian cancer, identify those patients whose cancer is likely to progress, and influence doctors’ management of most patients. That’s the finding from an Australian Combining PET, CT Scans Can Improve[...]