Predictors of Disruptions in Breast Cancer Care for Individuals with Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with schizophrenia experience markedly increased breast cancer mortality, yet reasons for this disparity are poorly understood. We sought to characterize disruptions in breast cancer care for patients with schizophrenia and identify modifiable predictors of those disruptions.

Materials and methods

We performed a medical record review of 95 patients with schizophrenia and breast cancer treated at an academic cancer center between 1993 and 2015. We defined cancer care disruptions as processes that interfere with guideline-concordant cancer care, including delays to diagnosis or treatment, deviations from stage-appropriate treatment, and interruptions in treatment. We hypothesized that lack of psychiatric treatment at cancer diagnosis would be associated wit

SUBMITTER: Irwin KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5679818 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature