Mental disorders and socioeconomic outcomes in women with cervical cancer, and their children and co-parents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cervical cancer often affects women who are in the middle of life and may carry substantial mental and socioeconomic impact also on families. We performed a generation-spanning study to elucidate this burden.

Methods

We used nationwide registers during 1991-2018 in Sweden to perform 2 matched cohort studies based on a source population of more than 5 million women. The individual sub-study included 6060 cases of cervical cancer diagnosed during 2006-2018 and 5 population comparators individually matched to each case by age, birth year, and region (n = 30 300). The family sub-study included 9332 cases of cervical cancer diagnosed during 1991-2016 and 45 674 matched population comparators and all their children and co-parents.

Results

We found an increased ri

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12415958 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature