Posted by SLS on August 10, 2011, at 21:50:58
In reply to Re: Meds are only a fraction of the answer » Shes_InItForTheMoney, posted by SLS on August 10, 2011, at 21:27:42
Just a quick search on Medline/Pubmed provided the following abstract:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21789016
"Conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the use of SSRI antidepressants is effective in the palliative care of cancer patients, and their action affects not only depression but also the patients' mental adaptation to the disease"
This study indicates that a depressed cancer patient can have their mental adaptation to the disease improved by antidepressants. Some cancer patients are more vulnerable than others to developing depression, and there are established biomarkers to explain this variability.
Do you find any relevance of this data to your POW analogy?
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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