Oncology
Cancer’s invisible sibling
In 2020, 19.3 million people worldwide were diagnosed with cancer. Anyone who’s been affected themselves or knows someone who has is well aware of how emotionally taxing it is. The prevalence of depression and anxiety is high among people suffering from cancer, and it can impact their experience as patients as well as their clinical outcomes.
6min
Published on May 19, 2022
Up to 80 percent are unrecognized and untreated
The study
Obtaining information about distress and anxiety
Key findings for breast and prostate cancer patients
Personalized information is needed at the right point in time
A vision for the future
Whitepaper "Emotional care: the overlooked element in the cancer pathway"
Researched and authored by: Sir Muir Grey, Nick Rowley, Christina Triantafyllou, Sandra Riedel, Katja Ansorge, Alfonso Costanza, the team of iWantGreatCare, the Siemens Healthineers PEX team and many others.
Whitepaper "Emotional care"
(pdf, 692.75 KB)Breast cancer that has extended beyond the immediate region of the tumor