Children, adolescent, and young adult patients with cancer at increased lifetime risk of diagnosis or increased severity of depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders
Findings show significant risk of food insecurity, paying bills, and lack of transportation
Participation in bowel, breast, and cervical cancer screening was lower for those with severe mental illness
Similar radiotherapy schedules seen for patients with and without psychiatric disorder, but overall survival worse for those with psychiatric illness
Co-occurrence of symptoms also very common across cancer types
Research shows meaningful and sustained clinician- and patient-reported improvements over eight weeks
For patients with hematologic malignancies, 18, 22, and 22 percent have clinically significant depression, anxiety, PTSD at six months
Benefits seen across all patient conditions for pain, stress, and anxiety
Elevated risks seen across all sociodemographic groups, with particularly high rates for Hispanics, Medicaid-insured, uninsured
Greatest risk of suicide seen for male, White, and divorced or single patients