A case report highlights severe psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenia patients during cancer surgery, implying careful monitoring is crucial.
Patients with comorbid schizophrenia and cancer may present severe psychiatric symptoms in the cancer perioperative period, even if schizophrenia is in a chronic phase.. Postoperative delirium, withdrawal delirium, and exacerbation of schizophrenia were speculated to be the possible contributing factors in this case. When patients with cancer also have schizophrenia, oncologists and liaison psychiatrists need to carefully monitor their mental status to prevent interruptions in cancer treatment.
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