Depression

Race influences how we cope with cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 10th, 2005

White patients cope better with the pressure of cancer than their British Asian counterparts according to research from the University of Leicester.

Researchers carried out the study in Leicester, and looked at coping styles among 200 white and British Asian cancer patients. They found "denial" was top of the strategies used by British Asians.

Conversely, more white patients coped with their illness by not dwelling on their cancer compared with British Asian patients. This attitude has been linked to less anxiety and depression.

About half of British Asians surveyed said they did not really believe that they had cancer, despite...

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