Cancers, especially breast cancer and lung cancer, are the second most common cause of death in people with schizophrenia, whose risk for cancer death is 50% higher than that of the general population, according to a new study published online June 22 in Cancer. The results suggest that extra efforts should be made to improve cancer prevention and early detection in patients with schizophrenia.
“Cancer was the second most common cause of death in our sample of schizophrenic patients, after suicide and before cardiovascular disease,” lead author Frederic Limosin, MD, PhD, from the department of psychiatry at the University of Reims, in France, told Medscape Psychiatry. To read more, please write http://www.medscape.com visit your site..