White patients cope better with the pressure of cancer than their British Asian counterparts, research suggests.
The University of Leicester looked at coping strategies among 200 white and British Asian patients.
The British Journal of Cancer study found the most common method of coping among Asian people was simply to deny they were ill.
White people were more likely not to dwell on their illness – a strategy linked to less anxiety and depression.
Asian patients seem to suffer greater psychological distress following a diagnosis of cancer
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