Elevated cancer incidence among adults with serious mental illness

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1032-1034

  Pandiani, John A ^a   Boyd, Monica M ^a   Banks, Steven M ^b   Johnson, Alison T ^c  

^a Vermont Department of Mental Health   (United States)

^b Bristol Observatory   (United States)

^c Vermont Cancer Registry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGISTRIES; RISK; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VERMONT;

EID: 33745835127     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.57.7.1032     Document Type: Article

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