Head Neck cancers: Emotional Impact
Head and Neck cancers are one of the most common cancers in the Indian subcontinent. A range of psychiatric comorbidities often plagues patients diagnosed with oral cancers.
In a research paper, we reported the peri-operative psychiatric morbidity of more than 700 patients with head and neck cancers, and this paper can be accessed here.
Mukherjee A, Bhowmick C, Chattopadhyay S, Kathar MA, Bhattacharyya M, Nasreen S, Jain P, Arun P, Datta SS (2022) Preoperative risk factors associated with peri-operative psychiatric diagnosis in oral cancer patients ecancer 16 1401