Research Article

Cancer-Specific Stress and Mood Disturbance: Implications for Symptom Perception, Quality of Life, and Immune Response in Women Shortly after Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Table 2

Descriptive values of study variables.

Possible rangeScore rangeMeanSD

Cancer-specific stress0–750–6530.514.3
Mood disturbance0–1484–12244.522.7
Symptoms0–40–1.43.57.32
Quality of life0–16073–148115.817.0
WBC (×1000/μL)3.2–11.76.71.7
Neutrophil %0–10039.0–77.059.99.3
Lymphocyte %0–10014.0–49.028.88.1
NLR.8–5.02.41.0

WBC: total leukocytes; NLR: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; SD: standard deviation.