Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Detecting Breast Cancer With Mental Health Inequalities

Screening for breast cancer is less likely to be done by women with a mental illness like depression, anxiety and other serious mental illnesses, reports a new research published in the iBJPsych/i (online first). The research was led by Dr Alex J Mitchell, consultant psychiatrist in the Department of Cancer Studies, University of Leicester. Studies have previously shown there is a higher mortality rate due to cancer in people with mental illness, ...

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