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=== Interventions for the treatment of cancer‐related traumatic stress symptoms: a systematic review of the literature ===


 * Prevalence estimates of cancer‐related PTSD range between 7% and 14%,3 with an additional 10% to 20% of patients experiencing subsyndromal post‐traumatic stress symptoms (ie, PTSS). Both PTSD and PTSS have been associated with increased distress and impaired quality of life, and have been reported in newly diagnosed patients as well as in long‐term survivors.
 * Therefore, as the number of people diagnosed with cancer increases and cancer survivorship improves, cancer-related PTSD becomes a more prominent issue, and thus, providing for cancer patients' physical and psychological needs becomes increasingly important.
 * Evidence‐based treatments such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) are available for PTSD, and indeed, there have been promising reports of their effectiveness in cancer patients.
 * Both CBT and EMDR are recommended by NICE for the treatment and prevention of PTSD in adults; however, there is no specific recommendation for their use in cancer‐related PTSD.
 * This article provides evidence to support their effective use in treating cancer‐related PTSD.

A meta-analysis of prevalence rates and moderating factors for cancer-related post-traumatic stress disorder

The PTSD Field Trials for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) [CITE DSM 4], revealed that 22% of cancer survivors present with lifetime cancer-related PTSD (CR-PTSD), endorsing cancer diagnosis and treatment as a traumatic stressor.