Professor Emily Banks
The psychological resilience shown by people confronted with the devastating news of a cancer diagnosis is the subject of a public lecture at The Australian National University today. The lecture will see Professor Emily Banks from the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment discuss the results of her research, published recently in the Medical Journal of Australia . Professor Banks is the Scientific Director of the New South Wales '45 and Up Study'. The analysis that she will present today includes data from 89,000 men and women and examines the relationship between psychological distress, health-related disability and cancer diagnosis. She found that, surprisingly, long-term survivors of cancer are not destined to suffer ongoing depression. Instead, depression was directly linked to ongoing health-related disabilities rather than the cancer diagnosis or treatment itself. Long-term cancer survivors who were not affected by disability exhibited levels of depression and anxiety that were only slightly higher than people without cancer.
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