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Non-organic somatic symptoms in cancer
Chaturvedi, Santosh K Hopwood, Penelope Maguire, Peter
Chaturvedi, Santosh K
Hopwood, Penelope
Maguire, Peter
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Abstract
Somatic symptoms considered as unrelated to cancer or grossly out of proportion to the known pathology were systematically assessed in a group of 98 consecutively referred cases. Subjects with prominent somatic symptoms (somatisers) had depression (53%), anxiety (12%) and atypical somatoform disorder (27%). During follow-up, somatisers with depression showed clinical improvement whereas those with atypical somatoform disorder showed no improvement or deteriorated. Methods of distinguishing the cause of somatic symptoms in cancer patients are discussed.
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Date
1993
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Keywords
Somatic Symptoms
Cancer
Cancer
Type
Article
Citation
Non-organic somatic symptoms in cancer.1993, 29 (7):1006-1008 Eur. J. Cancer