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Depression and cancer risk: 24 years of follow-up of the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area sample
Cancer Causes and Control, 11/09/09

Gross AL et al. – Results reveal a specificity to the association between depression and hormonally mediated cancers, which provides support to hypotheses about a common biological pathway between depression and cancer.

• Population-based sample of 3,177 cancer-free adults from Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study followed for 24 years.
• Cox proportional hazards models used to estimate relative hazards for both overall and subtype-specific cancers among those with history of depression

• Risk set contained 334 incident cancer cases and 40,530 person-years of observation
• DIS/DSM-III major depression associated with higher hazard for overall cancer (HR: 1.9, 95% CI: 1.2, 3.0) and statistically significant increased hazard for breast cancer (HR: 4.4, 95% CI: 1.08, 17.6) among women
• Positive association between history of depression and prostate cancer
• Confidence bounds included null
• No reliable associations found between colon, lung, or skin cancers and depression
• Pattern of results similar for dysphoria, but not for phobia or other mental disorders studied

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Is pregnancy associated with mood and anxiety disorders? A cross-sectional study
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Ethnic differences in antidepressant response: a prospective multi site clinical trial
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