These initials refer to the doctor's credentials â they indicate the type of medical school the doctor attended and the licensing exam they took to become a doctor. MD stands for Doctor of Medicine, and is the most common type of degree earned by doctors who practice medicine in the United States.
Anxiety is often manifested at various times during cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, or recurrence. For patients undergoing cancer treatment, anxiety can also heighten the expectancy of pain,[10-12] other symptoms of distress, and sleep disturbances and can be a major factor in anticipatory nausea and vomiting.
Note: The global item mean was the average of the scores on the severity, frequency, and distress scales; the scale ranged from 1 (low global. symptom experience) to 4 (severe global symptom experience). noted in Table 5, FCs provided 23 symptoms. that they feltwere not addressed in the tool.