Routes to cancer diagnosis for patients with pre-existing psychiatric disorders: a nationwide register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poor cancer prognosis has been observed in patients with pre-existing psychiatric disorders. Therefore, we need better knowledge about the diagnosis of cancer in this patient group. The aim of the study was to describe the routes to cancer diagnosis in patients with pre-existing psychiatric disorders and to analyse how cancer type modified the routes.

Methods

A register-based cohort study was conducted by including patients diagnosed with incident cancer in 2014-2018 (n = 155,851). Information on pre-existing psychiatric disorders was obtained from register data on hospital contacts and prescription medication. Multinomial regression models with marginal means expressed as probabilities were used to assess the association between pre-existing psychiatric disorders

SUBMITTER: Virgilsen LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9055745 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature