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Participants were 195 breast cancer patients at the outpatient clinic of Xijing hospital, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi Province, China. We found that a treatment delay of more than 3\u2009weeks may exacerbate breast cancer patients\u2019 psychological symptoms, such as somatization, obsessive\u2013compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism, whereas a short-term delay of less than 3\u2009weeks is less likely to have a significant effect on one\u2019s mental well-being. Additionally, breast cancer survivors, especially those at more advance stages, tend to experience more elevated psychological symptoms with longer treatment delay, and whose treatments continues to be delayed reported stronger psychological symptoms than individuals whose treatment are resumed, regardless of treatment type.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.1003016","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]],"date-time":"2022-11-10T09:36:08Z","timestamp":1668072968000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["COVID-induced 3 \u2009weeks\u2019 treatment delay may exacerbate breast cancer patient\u2019s psychological symptoms"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yijia","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuqing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Changjiao","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wen","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jixin","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongliang","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nanlin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","first-page":"451","article-title":"Construct validity of symptom Checklist-90-revised (SCL-90-R) and general health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) in patients with drug addiction and diabetes, and normal population","volume":"45","author":"Ardakani","year":"2016","journal-title":"Iran. 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