Cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in people with schizophrenia

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 05:42 in Health & Medicine

People with schizophrenia die from cancer four times as often as people in the general population. That was the conclusion of a new study published in the 1 August issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that extra efforts should be made to improve cancer prevention and early detection in patients with schizophrenia...

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