The prevalence of psychological distress by cancer site

By J. Zabora, K. Brintzenhofeszoc, B. Curbow, C. Hooker, S. Piantadosi. Psycho-Oncology, 2001

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Cytokines and their relationship to the symptoms and outcome of cancer (2008, background): “Many cancer patients, during both treatment and long-term follow-up, experience psychological distress including anxiety and depressio”
High levels of untreated distress and fatigue in cancer patients (2004, methodology): “The BSI-18 is the version that the Johns Hopkins group has been recently using in their screening programme, and on which they have published norms from a large sample of patients (Zabora et al., 2001b).”
Screening for psychologic distress in ambulatory cancer patients (2005, neutral): “Below cutoff 180 (47) 76 (20) Above cutoff 37 (10) 87 ( 23 )”
Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (2014, background): “Estimates suggest that one-third to one-half of patients with cancer experience considerable distress, and those who are diagnosed with cancers associated with poorer prognoses experience greater distress (Zabora et al., 2001).”
Distress in couples coping with cancer: a meta-analysis and critical review of role and gender effects. (2008, background): “The largest studies of distress among persons with cancer with varying site and stage, involving about 4,500 (Zabora, Brint-zenhofeszoc, Curbow, Hooker, & Piantadosi, 2001) and nearly 2,800 patients (Carlson et al., 2004), respectively, found that about 35% of the patients had elevated distress, a…”