Depression as a risk factor for breast cancer: investigating methodological limitations in the literature
Cancer Causes and Control, 06/22/2012
Possel P et al. – With regard to the predictive associations between depression and breast cancer incidence, the findings revealed that studies using a longer time frame found a stronger association than studies using a shorter time frame and studies utilizing depression measures that did not contain somatic items found a smaller association than studies utilizing depression measures that did contain these items.
