June 16, 2020
Experts discuss the process of assessing decision-making capacity in patients with cancer.
October 28, 2019
Personality disorders become exacerbated under stressful cancer-related situations and may lead to adverse consequences and outcomes.
June 19, 2019
This article reviews the prevalence of suicide in patients with cancer, risk factors, related conditions, and interventions to identify and treat suicidal patients.
June 10, 2019
Cancer Network spoke with Daniel McFarland, DO, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, about building programs to prevent burnout and suicide in oncology providers.
June 07, 2019
In this video, Dr. McFarland of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center spoke with Cancer Network at ASCO 2019 about depression in lung cancer and dopamine as potential therapy.
February 15, 2018
Long-time ONCOLOGY contributor Jimmie C. Holland, MD, a founder of the field of psycho-oncology, who worked as a powerful and effective clinician and researcher up until the very end, passed away on Christmas Eve of 2017.
July 15, 2016
The diagnosis and treatment of depression in the cancer setting can improve patients’ quality of life, their adherence to therapy recommendations, and the illness experience, all of which may affect survival outcomes.