BeiGene re­veals men­tal health and can­cer care gap in study, de­buts dig­i­tal re­sources

One-fourth of can­cer pa­tients are liv­ing with de­pres­sion — and an­oth­er 20% suf­fer from anx­i­ety. That’s ac­cord­ing to new study re­sults from BeiGene, con­duct­ed by Can­cer Sup­port Com­mu­ni­ty (CSC), about the men­tal and emo­tion­al health of can­cer pa­tients.

While the fact that peo­ple with can­cer are al­so deal­ing with de­pres­sion or anx­i­ety may not be sur­pris­ing, what is — and was to BeiGene — is that a ma­jor­i­ty of them aren’t get­ting sup­port. 60% of re­spon­dents said they were not re­ferred to a men­tal health pro­fes­sion­al, and even more con­cern­ing, two in five who specif­i­cal­ly asked for men­tal health help did not get it. CSC, a non­prof­it men­tal health in can­cer ad­vo­ca­cy group, sur­veyed more than 600 US can­cer pa­tients.

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