“…As for depression, some of the predictors are known to be: cancer type (mainly neoplasms with paraneoplastic syndromes and cytokine release); clinical stage (a higher presence of mental disorders is observed in the most symptomatic patients); ongoing cancer treatment (makes for more side effects to be likely to occur); history of depression (presence of relapsing depressive episodes or severe depressive symptoms); pain (especially chronic or uncontrolled pain); limited social network (limited size of the social network or perception of poorly functional social support); limited functional status (loss of autonomy for carrying out activities of daily living or leisure); and age (younger patients are more prone to suffer from depression) 7 . Other variables associated with the presence of anxiety and depression are: place of residence (e.g., insecurity, violence), religion [14][15][16] and occupation 14 , cancer recurrence, other chronic diseases (diabetes and hypertension), history of psychiatric disorders, presence of secondary cancer, presence of metastases, low level of education and income, being single or divorced, 17 and smoking 18 .…”