Yi-Ping Hung, Chia-Jen Liu, Chia-Fen Tsai, Man-Hsin Hung, Cheng-Hwai Tzeng, Chun-Yu Liu, Tzeng-Ji Chen
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to assess the incidence and risk of mood disorders, including major depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders, in Taiwanese patients after the diagnosis of breast cancer compared with a matched cohort. METHODS: From January 2000 to December 2005, 26,629 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients were enrolled by the Taiwan National Health Insurance program database. The control cohort was selected randomly from 1,000,000 National Health Insurance beneficiaries from a population of 21,400,826 enrolled throughout Taiwan...
October 2013: Psycho-oncology