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This trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available.
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This is a study to see if a talking therapy called cognitive behavioural therapy can help people with advanced cancer who are feeling low.
People who have may have a low mood (depression). Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy that is widely used to help improve mood. It can help you to change how you think about your situation (cognitive) and what you do to cope (behaviour).
In this study, researchers want to see if having cognitive behavioural therapy alongside usual treatment helps people with cancer who are depressed.
Recruitment start: 19 September 2012
Recruitment end: 14 December 2015
Please note: In order to you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Dr Marc Serfaty
Department of Health
NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer
NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme
University College London (UCL)
There is more information about the study on the CanTalk website.
Last reviewed: 14 Dec 2015
CRUK internal database number: 8518

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