Tricyclic antidepressants for children with cancer

1 August 1983

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 140 (8) , 1074-1076
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.8.1074

Abstract

Eight depressed children with cancer had a rapid clinical response to low doses of imipramine or amitriptyline. Because of the many variables affecting cancer patients, the mechanism by which tricyclic antidepressant treatment produced this response is unclear.