What the Chart Doesn't Show: Untangling Psychiatric and Medical Symptoms in Cancer Survivors

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 12:00 PM ET · 60 minutes · Online

Fatigue, poor sleep, low appetite, trouble concentrating. In a cancer survivor, each of these can be depression. Each can also be the treatment, the disease, a medication, or all of them at once. The chart rarely tells you which.

In this session, Dr. Guy Maytal walks through how to tell them apart, and what to do once you have.

What you will walk away with

• A clear way to separate psychiatric symptoms from medical ones when they look the same
• The red flags for depression and anxiety that are easy to miss in survivorship care
• Practical next steps for screening, referral and treatment you can use in clinic the next day
• When to bring in psychiatry, and how to make that handoff work for the patient

About the speaker

Guy Maytal, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and senior executive with more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of medicine and mental health. Much of his clinical work has focused on supporting patients and families coping with cancer and other serious medical illness.

• Chief Medical Officer, Forge Health, a mission-driven behavioral health organization making high-quality mental health care more accessible
• Nearly two decades in academic psychiatry, with leadership roles at Massachusetts General Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
• Taught at Harvard Medical School and Weill Cornell Medical College, where he remains a Clinical Assistant Professor
• Co-founder of The Survivorship Society

Who should join

Oncologists, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, therapists, rehab specialists, and every clinician who follows patients after cancer treatment.

Hosted by The Survivorship Society on Doctoloop.