Why doesn't depression treatment improve cancer survival?
Menée au Royaume-Uni à partir de données portant sur 642 patients atteints de cancer et inclus dans deux essais cliniques, cette étude évalue l'effet d'un programme de traitement et de prise en charge de la dépression sur la qualité de vie et sur la survie
Mental health and cancer are closely linked—for example, patients with depression have a higher incidence of specific cancers1 and have a worse prognosis in observational studies than do patients without depression.2 What is not clear is whether this association can be positively influenced, either by the effective treatment of depression or by addressing the causative factors. Previous research3 suggests that depression is also linked with cardiovascular mortality and, in this case, effective treatment of depression appears to ameliorate this excess mortality.