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"Prostate Cancer Survivors Have Positive Outlook"
(Abstract only - Reuters Health)
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Prostate cancer survivors are generally "happy, hopeful and positive," and are actually less depressed on average than men their age who never had the disease, a new study shows.
"Most people who have cancer have a long and active life in front of them," Dr. Thomas O. Blank of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, the study's co-author and himself a prostate cancer survivor, told Reuters Health. "In fact, most people who have cancer feel as many beneficial and positive things from the experience as they do negatives."
There are currently about 10 million cancer survivors living in the US, Blank noted, and as many as 2 million of them may be prostate cancer survivors. Given that men usually live for years after a prostate cancer diagnosis, he and his colleague Dr. Keith M. Bellizzi of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland note in their report in the journal Cancer, it is important to understand how treatment options, personality and coping strategies will affect their long-term sense of well-being...
full article: http://www.medicineonline.com/news/12/4925/Prostate-cancer-survivors-have-positive-outlook.html