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The Incidence of Cancer Among In-Patients with Affective Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. J. R. Evans ,
J. A. Baldwin  and
Dennis Gath
N. J. R. Evans
Affiliation:
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
J. A. Baldwin
Affiliation:
Oxford University Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Oxford Record Linkage Study, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF
Dennis Gath
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
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Mortality rates in psychiatric patients have been reported as higher than those of the general population in Scandinavia (Odegaard, 1952), the United States (Gorwitz et al., 1966; Babigian and Odoroff, 1968), and Scotland (Innes and Millar, 1970). These findings may be related both to a greater prevalence of physical disease amongst psychiatric patients (Kay and Roth, 1955; Culpan et al., 1960; Shepherd et al., 1964; Kay and Bergman, 1966; Eastwood and Trevelyan, 1972) and to a greater frequency of suicide (Stenstedt, 1952; Stenstedt, 1959; Pokorny, 1964).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 583 , June 1974 , pp. 518 - 525
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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