Depression in pancreatic cancer: sense of impending doom.

摘要

Pancreatic cancer is still one of the malignancies with the worst prognosis and associated with a high prevalence of depression. This relationship was already described about 70 years ago, but is still poorly understood [1, 2]. Dealing with this subject, one pivotal question remains: is this depression a feature of pancreatic cancer per se or is it rather a response to the experience of gradual loss of strength and body weight in patients with a life-threatening diagnosis?