Depression and anxiety in patients with breast cancer receiving radiotherapy: a longitudinal study.

A recent study of patients with breast cancer in the United States supports our speculation, in that it found a similar decreasing trend throughout the course of RT in English-speakers, but an increasing trend in Spanish-speakers over time. 29 The authors believed that language-concordant physician care could improve medical understanding. 29 Therefore, we suspect that the provision of effective communication and appropriate information throughout treatment may help reduce levels of depression an

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