Depression as a risk factor for cancer: renewing a debate on the psychobiology of disease.
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- 16 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 90 (24) , 1856-1857
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/90.24.1856
Abstract
Throughout the 1980s, the relationship between depression and cancer risk was explored by several investigators, with mixed results. Shekelle et al. ( 1 ) published the first major study of the decade, reporting a relationship between self-reported symptoms of depression and risk of cancer death over a 17-year follow-up period. A similar 20-year follow-up of the same Western Electric Company employee cohort again found a heightened risk of cancer mortality among study participants who reported depression at baseline ( 2 )Keywords
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