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Cancer Second Most Frequent Cause of Death Among Schizophrenics
Published in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study shows that people with schizophrenia die from cancer four times as often as people in the general population.
The findings indicate that there is a need for extra efforts to improve cancer prevention and early detection in patients with schizophrenia.
While schizophrenia is associated with an increased incidence of premature death due to high rate of suicide among individuals with the disease, this alone does not account for the shortened life expectancy seen in the patients.
There are some previous studies that suggest that cancer may play a role, even though other data show that cancer rates are actually lower among individuals with schizophrenia compared with the general population.
Prof. Frederic Limosin of the University of Reims, Robert Debre Hospital, in Reims, France and colleagues set out to more precisely determine the prevalence of cancer in patients with schizophrenia.
For that purpose, the researchers prospectively studied 3,470 patients with schizophrenia, and tracked cancer incidence beginning in 1993. They also sought to identify characteristics that might help predict which schizophrenic patients are likely to develop cancer.
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