Emotional Problems of Adult Cancer Patients

Cobb, Beatrix

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1959.tb00590.x

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“…Of this sample, 44 percent involved patient delay, 17 percent physician delay, and in 18 percent of the cases, there was both patient and physician delay. Sutherland 18 percent, and 15 percent experienced patient-delay, physician-delay, and joint-delay.&dquo;…”

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Delay in the Detection of Cancer: A Review of the Literature

Antonovsky

Hartman

1974

Health Education Monographs

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University of the Negev , Beersheba THE EXISTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DELAY The Consequences of DelayIt would be easy to compile an impressive list of quotations testifying to the importance of cutting down the delay which precedes therapeutic action for cancer patients. Dominant professional opinion tends to coincide with common sense in arguing that the earlier the patient gets to the therapist, the more likely is his life to be saved. Thus, for example, Wiggins et al '°' estimated that the overall five-year cancer survival rate of 25 percent in upstate New York could be doubled if all cases were treated early. In 1954, the medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, Charles Cameron, said that two out of every four people diagnosed with cancer in the next year could be saved by current methods of treatment. However, he went on to say that only one of those would be saved. The other would delay seeking help until his disease had progressed too far for him to be helped by even the most modern methods.&dquo;As a starting point in our review of the literature, we felt it important to subject this view to the test of evidence. MacDonald's 61 survey in 1951 of 236 articles that made more than passing reference to the significance of early treatment revealed that only 16 contained data that made it possible to correlate end results with early treatment. Moreover, in his opinion, most of these 16 &dquo;failed to establish any significant value for early treatment.&dquo; Most of the literature contained little more than stereotyped allusions to the desirability of early *This paper has been prepared in the course of a study on participation and nonparticipation in breast cancer detection examinations.

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Section: The Definition Of Delaymentioning

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Delay in the Detection of Cancer: A Review of the Literature

Antonovsky

Hartman

1974

Health Education Monographs

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“…Blumberg, West, and Ellis (1956), using MMPI and Rorschach data, found that cancer patients with fast-developing diseases are more defensive and overcontrolled than patients with slow-developing diseases. Cobb (1959), using interview data, confirmed these impressions. The patient with rapidly progressing cancer shows a lack of ability to decrease anxiety and presents a polite, apologetic, almost painful acquiescence.…”

Section: Psychological Aspects Oj Health and Diseasementioning

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“…Studies of etiology have implicated three different but overlapping problem areas related to cancer: (a) a par-ticular repressive personality pattern that is related to specific childhood experiences, (b) a tendency to respond with hopelessness-helplessness-despair to the loss of a significant person or life situation, and (c) a history of bereavement or loss of significant interpersonal relationships or life contexts. Traditional studies of personality in cancer patients, using control subjects who were both well and sick, have been done by a number of American and European psychologists including Tarlau andSmalheiser (1951), LeShan (1966;LeShan & Reznikoff, 1960;LeShan & Worthington, 1956), Cobb (1952Cobb ( , 1959, Reznikoff (1955), and Bahnson (1969a, 1969b. Psychiatrists and medical psychologists overseas have added to this research, including Kissen et al in Britain (Kissen, Brown, & Kissen, 1969;Kis.…”

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Contributions of psychology to health research: Patterns, problems, and potentials.

1976

American Psychologist

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Recent years have witnessed growing attention by the public, by professionals, and by all levels of government to issues and problems arising from increasing costs and deficiencies in delivery of health care services. National concern has been reflected in the drafting of federal legislation to provide a national health insurance plan. Health professionals have been increasingly concerned with manpower shortages, training and accreditation standards, provision of continuing education, and recently, in response to federal legislation, with establishing peer review systems to assure quality of service. Public concern is reflected in the consumer advocacy movement and increased representation of consumers on the boards and committees of health agencies. The Task Force on Health Research was established by APA's Board of Scientific Affairs to survey the nature and extent of contributions by psychologists to basic and applied research on behavioral factors in physical illness and health miintenance. A survey and analysis of the research literature was made.Psychologists active in health research have been identified, together with their areas of interest. Funding resources for behavioral science research on health and illness have been identified. Areas of neglect have been pointed up, together with the special training needs for the "health care" researcher.

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“…Traditional studies of personality in cancer patients, using control subjects who were both well and sick, have been done by a number of American and European psychologists including Tarlau andSmalheiser (1951), LeShan (1966;LeShan & Reznikoff, 1960;LeShan & Worthington, 1956). Cobb (1952Cobb ( , 1959, Reznikoff (1955), and Bahnson (1969a, 1969b. Psychiatrists and medical psychologists overseas have added to this research, including Kissen et al in Britain (Kissen, Brown, & Kissen, 1969;Kissen & Eysenck, 1962;Kissen & Rao, 1969);Baltrusch (1975) in Germany; 00 (Note 2) in Hungary; and many others.…”

Section: Psychological Aspects Of Health a N D Diseasementioning

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Contributions of psychology to health research: Patterns, problems, and potentials.

Kiesler¹,

Cummings²,

VandenBos³

1979

Psychology and National Health Insurance: A Sourcebook.

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Recent years have witnessed growing attention by the public, by professionals, and by all levels of government to issues and problems arising from increasing costs and deficiencies in delivery of health care services. National concern has been reflected in &he drafting of federal legislation to provide a national health insurance plan. Health professionals have been increasingly concerned with manpower shortages, training and accreditation standards, provision of continuing education, and recently, in response to federal legislation, with establishing peer review systems to assure quality of service. Public concern is reflected in the consumer advocacy movement and increased representation of consumers on the boards and committees of health agencies. The Task Force on Health Research was established by APA's Board of Scientific Affairs to survey &he nature and extent of contributions by psychologists to basic and applied research on behavioral factors in physical illness and health maintenance. A survey and analysis of the research literature was made. Psychologists active in health research have been identifed, together with their areas of interest. Funding resources for behavioral science research on health and illness have been identifed. Areas of neglect have been pointed up, together with the special training needs for the "health care" researcher.

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Emotional Problems of Adult Cancer Patients

Cited by 11 publications

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Delay in the Detection of Cancer: A Review of the Literature

Delay in the Detection of Cancer: A Review of the Literature

Contributions of psychology to health research: Patterns, problems, and potentials.

Contributions of psychology to health research: Patterns, problems, and potentials.

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