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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 04/10/2008
Health Professional Version
Changes to This Summary (04/10/2008)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Overview 1

Added text 2 to state that acute stress disorder (ASD) is a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) mental disorder with a profile similar to that of PTSD but a shorter time to onset, within 4 weeks of a traumatic event.

Added text 3 to state that one German study that evaluated patients with breast cancer for PTSD and ASD concluded that patients with lifetime PTSD (8.7%) were much more likely to experience cancer-related ASD or PTSD (odds ratio 14.1).

Prevalence 4

Added text 5 on the prevalence of acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with breast cancer (cited Mehnert et al. as reference 15).


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1http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/post-traumatic-stress/HealthP
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2http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/post-traumatic-stress/HealthP
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3http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/post-traumatic-stress/HealthP
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4http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/post-traumatic-stress/HealthP
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5http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/post-traumatic-stress/HealthP
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