The results showed significant differences in anxiety, depression
and traumatic stress symptoms among the three groups (Table 1).
Scheffé tests showed that patients who undergone surgery/
chemotherapy had more anxiety (p 0.001), more depression
(p 0.005) and more traumatic symptoms (p 0.001) when
compared to the surgical group. Patients who went through
surgery/radiotherapy, compared to surgical patients, presented
more anxiety (p 0.006), more depressive symptoms (p 0.041)
and more traumatic symptoms (p 0.001). No differences were
found between the groups surgery/chemotherapy and surgery/
radiotherapy in all three measures.