Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Immunocompetence, Radiation Therapy, Drug Tolerance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: yves bureau

Document Summary

Involves uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells, which often form a tumour: metasized when abnormal cells spread from original site to other parts of the body, many forms, with different symptoms, most common types are lung, breast, prostate, colorectal. Suffering may occur in 2 areas: physical. Illness-cause (pain, fatigue: treatment caused (nausea, fatigue, pain, changes in physical appearance, memory loss, and other cognitive difficulties, psychological (accounts for 44%, depression and dear: concerned with body integrity, radiation therapy, relapse, death. Linked to intrusive cognitions: unwanted thoughts related to memories of cancer: results in poorer coping due to anxiety, sense of hopelessness/helplessness, patients often have intrusive thoughts about what they perceive cancer to be (often visual in nature) Is long thought to be the best style but can lead to state anxiety. Sometimes associated with the patient blaming themselves for not being able to control the disease. Radical breast mastectomy: side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy do harm to health cells.