Psycho-social distress from diagnosis of cancer

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Dr Jimmie Holland – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Dr Jimmie Holland talks to ecancer at the 2013 AORTIC meeting in Durban, South Africa about the psychosocial distress associated with a cancer diagnosis.


Dr Holland discusses that the word “distress” covers several psychosocial issues that a cancer diagnosis raises, which are universal and cross cultures, ranging from physical symptoms of pain, fatigue, treatment side effects to social and spiritual distress.