NUS study finds taking care of cancer patients 'more stressful than in West'

Assoc Prof Rathi Mahendran from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS and Dr Lim Siew Eng from the National University Cancer Institute Singapore co-led a study on 258 caregivers of cancer patients in Singapore, which found that caregivers here feel more burdened and stressed compared with their counterparts in the West. It also found that male caregivers had poorer qualities of life than their female counterparts.

• The Straits Times, 25 July 2016, Home, pB4