Managed Healthcare Executive July 31, 2024
New research expands on previous knowledge that breast cancer survivors are more at risk for depression than people without breast cancer.
Depression is associated with a higher risk of mortality in breast cancer patients when compared with women without breast cancer, results of recent study published in Brain Sciences on July 21 show.
A team of researchers led by Jagdish Khubchandani, professor at the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation at New Mexico State University used National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 2005 to 2010 and compared it with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention death rates.
A total of 4,719 women ages 45 and older were identified. Of these women, 5.1% had breast cancer and 12.7%...
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