Cancer and severe mental illness: bi‐directional problems and potential solutions

L Grassi, M Riba - Psycho‐oncology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Given the reported increased rates of physical morbidity and higher mortality rates
among people with severe mental illness (SMI)(schizophrenia and severe mood disorders) …

Sex differences in schizophrenia relevant to clinical care

MV Seeman - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Most medical diagnoses present somewhat differently in men and women,
more so at specific periods of life. Treatment effects may also differ. This is true for …

Cancer and schizophrenia

M Nordentoft, O Plana-Ripoll… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
This review indicates that patients with schizophrenia are at increased risk of dying of cancer
and of several specific types of cancer. This increased mortality can be reduced if the price …

Cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis among people with psychotic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis

JC Wootten, JC Wiener, PS Blanchette… - Cancer Epidemiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Research regarding the incidence of cancer among people with psychotic disorders relative
to the general population is equivocal, although the evidence suggests that they have more …

Antipsychotic use and risk of breast cancer in women with schizophrenia: a nationwide nested case-control study in Finland

H Taipale, M Solmi, M Lähteenvuo… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Breast cancer is more common in female patients with schizophrenia than in
the general population. It is not known whether treatment with prolactin-increasing …

Treatment of cancer with antipsychotic medications: Pushing the boundaries of schizophrenia and cancer

JS Brown - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Over a century ago, the phenothiazine dye, methylene blue, was discovered to have both
antipsychotic and anti-cancer effects. In the 20th-century, the first phenothiazine …

[HTML][HTML] The risk and the course of cancer among people with severe mental illness

L Grassi, D McFarland, M Riba - … in Mental Health: CP & EMH, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The paucity of data regarding patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and cancer is
alarming given the fact that people with SMI, especially schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and …

[HTML][HTML] Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis

F Ge, Z Huo, Y Liu, X Du, R Wang, W Lin… - Comprehensive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Observational studies analyzing the risk of prostate cancer in schizophrenia
patients have generated mixed results. We performed a meta-analysis and a Mendelian …

[HTML][HTML] Causal associations between schizophrenia and cancers risk: a Mendelian randomization study

K Zhou, L Zhu, N Chen, G Huang, G Feng, Q Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Previous observational studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding
the incidence of cancer in patients with schizophrenia compared to the general population …

[HTML][HTML] Deficient DNA base-excision repair in the forebrain leads to a sex-specific anxiety-like phenotype in mice

FS Mueller, R Amport, T Notter, SM Schalbetter, HY Lin… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia (SZ) and autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), are common, multi-factorial and multi-symptomatic disorders. Ample …