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Medical condition
Cancer phobia
Specialty
Psychology
Cancer phobia, also known as carcinophobia, is a common phobia and an anxiety disorder characterized by the chronic fear of developing cancer. It can manifest in tremendous feelings of sadness, fear, panic, and distress. In some cases, the phobia can be so extreme that it prevents the individual from living a normal life.
Cancerphobia, also known as carcinophobia, is a common phobia and an anxiety disorder characterized by the chronic fear of developing cancer. It can...
psychiatry groups phobias such as agoraphobia, social phobia, or simple phobia, see phobia. The following lists include words ending in -phobia, and include...
(AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), cancer (carcinophobia)...
Love Phobia (Korean: 도마뱀; RR: Domabaem; lit. "Lizard") is a 2006 South Korean romance drama film directed by Kang Ji-eun and starring Kang Hye-jung and...
fear of the Sun, sunlight, or any bright light. It is a type of specific phobia. The symptoms of heliophobia depends on the person. Mild sufferers may feel...
healthcare professionals than is usually deserved, a phenomenon known as "fever phobia." A fever is usually accompanied by sickness behavior, which consists of...
actual risks would merit. The term was used in a paper entitled "Radio-phobia and radio-mania" presented by Dr Albert Soiland of Los Angeles in 1903....
perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure...
replaced by Chad Szeliga in 2005. The band released two more studio albums, Phobia (2006) and Dear Agony (2009), before entering an extended hiatus in early...
sound in his music. Burnley has several phobias, a fact that inspired the title of their 2006 album Phobia. Phobia's cover, which depicts a winged man hovering...
derives from the Latin prefix bi-(meaning "two, double") and the root -phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, phóbos, "fear") found in homophobia. Along with...
He described the anxiety as so intense that it can generate fears and phobias of everyday life like fears of being alone, or in confined spaces. According...
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function and motor control due to multiple sclerosis, social anxiety or phobia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
History – Phobia". London College of Clinical Hypnosis. Archived from the original on 29 June 2005. Wijesnghe B (1974). "A vomiting phobia overcome by...
-phobia, the majority of written work focusing on addressing chemophobia describes it as a non-clinical aversion or prejudice, and not as a phobia in...
Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.) was an American psychotherapist, phobia expert, and mental health activist. The New York Times' Benedict Carey described...
hand, the BAI won't function as adequately for disorders such as social phobia or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which have a stronger cognitive or behavioral...
whether it is a specific type of social phobia. The DSM-IV classifies test anxiety as a type of social phobia. Research indicates that test anxiety among...
diagnosed with breast cancer. It went into remission less than a year later and Grahame returned to work. In 1980, the cancer returned, but Grahame refused...
lethal, but those that are seen to be dehumanizing. For example, a rabies phobia tore through nineteenth-century France, but rabies was actually incredibly...
cancers." In terms of behavior in dogs, separation anxiety, aggression, escape behavior and inappropriate elimination are reduced while noise phobia and...
considered by mainstream radiation scientists to be a product of radiation phobia or efforts to extort money from a blameless industry." Wing later noted...