You Can’t Keep a Good Fiend Down: Exercise and Cancer–National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

If you’re starting to get the idea, after being subjected to posts like Running For Your Life: How I View Depression and Exercise and Of Bipolar Disorder, The Hippocampus, and The Return of the Exercise Fiend that I’m, well, an exercise… Continue Reading

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Quiet Doesn’t Come After The Storm: Post-Cancer Depression

  To use, granted, the lower end of the statistical range, at some point in their lives 10% of women and 5% of men, if left to their own devices, will develop depression. But, according to the American Cancer Society, a whopping  25%… Continue Reading

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Depressed Older Cancer Patients–What Prevents Better Care?

“From 2010 to 2030, the total projected cancer incidence will increase by approximately 45%, from 1.6 million in 2010 to 2.3 million in 2030. This increase is driven by cancer diagnosed in older adults and minorities. A 67% increase in… Continue Reading

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The Danger of Doubling: Depression’s Impact on a Cancer Diagnosis

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an astounding 1 in 4 cancer patients will experience depression some time throughout the course of their experience. And certain cancers are even harder hit. According to Derek Hopko, Ph.D, associate professor… Continue Reading