Sadness and anticipatory grief are normal reactions to the various crises faced during cancer and now a recent study has found that even mild depressive symptoms were associated with poorer overall survival. The research found that the patients should be screened and treated for depressive symptoms at the time of diagnosis. The team led by Elizabeth Cash of the University of Louisville School of Medicine was interested to see if depressive symptoms might also affect patients' health outcomes. The researchers studied 134 patients with head and neck cancers who reported depressive symptoms during the planning of their treatment. When the scientists
