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Depression Boosts Mortality Risk in Cancer Patients
The study reported that death rates from cancer "were up to 25 per cent higher in patients experiencing depressive symptoms and up to 39 per cent higher in patients diagnosed with major or minor depression."
"In both of those groups, you can predict cancer mortality," lead researcher Jillian Satin, of the University of British Columbia here, told AFP.
While the study's main conclusion is a call for more research on the links between cancer and mental health, Satin said the results also proves the link is significant.
"I think depression should always be taken seriously," she added. "It would be my wish that this line of research fuels adding psychological social treatment into standard cancer care."
The study by Satin and co-authors Wolfgang Linden and Melanie Phillips was an overview, called a meta-analysis, of 26 previous studies on the effect of depression on the progression of cancer and survival rates in of 9,417 patients.
Satin said the researchers controlled for the chicken-or-egg factor: Do people become depressed because they are sick with cancer? Or does cancer kill them more often when they have depression independent of the cancer?
"That's the million-dollar question," she said. "Even after correcting for that, we still see the positive relationship between depression predicting mortality."
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