At what point would you recommend initiating psychotherapy or psychotropic medications to manage mood and anxiety symptoms following a new oncology diagnosis in pediatric patients?
What are your first-line medications in this population?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Perhaps the most important piece to this question is missing, and that is that more history is required to determine what to do with a recently diagnosed cancer patient.What was the patient’s psychiatric status pre-cancer?If the patient had undiagnosed mental health problems–anxiety or depressio...