Abstract: ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of comprehensive psychotherapy on depression,anxiety and gastrointestinal reactions in patients with lung or breast cancer.Methods96 cases with lung or breast cancer were randomly divided into psychotherapy group(n=48) and control group(n=48) which were both treated with routine chemotherapy.Those in the psychotherapy group concomitantly received comprehensive psychotherapy for 2 weeks.Their characters of Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) were measured,while those of Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS) and Self-rating Depression Scale(SDS) were also measured before and after treatment.ResultsThe scores of SCL-90 in patients with lung or breast cancer were increased compared with Chinese norm in somatization,depression,anxiety,phobic anxiety(P<0.01).From the 3rd week,the scores of SDS(41.2±3.7) and SAS(34.6±5.8) in the psychotherapy group were significantly lower than those in the control group(P<0.01),as well as the gastrointestinal reactions.ConclusionPsychotherapy can obviously decease the severity of depressive and anxious emotions and the gastrointestinal reactions.

Key words: psychotherapy, chemotherapy, lung cancer, breast cancer, anxious, depressive, gastrointestinal reactions