Depression Largely Untreated in Low-Income Cancer Patients
Close to a quarter of minority women with cancer suffer depression, but only about one in 10 of them is diagnosed or treated for it, researchers report.
“Most striking, we saw that only 12 percent of poor minority women were receiving antidepressant medications and only 5 percent met with a counselor or support group. This is in stark contrast to a recent study in which 80 percent of middle- and upper-class white female cancer patients were receiving antidepressants,” study author Kathleen Ell, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, said in a prepared statement.
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