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Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Disorder Burden Among Elderly Patients With Gastrointestinal Malignancies.
Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Disorder Burden Among Elderly Patients With Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN Harris, J. P., Kashyap, M., Humphreys, J. N., Chang, D. T., Pollom, E. L. 2021: 1–9Abstract
BACKGROUND: Patients with cancer are at high risk for having mental disorders, resulting in widespread psychosocial screening efforts. However, there is a need for population-based and longitudinal studies of mental disorders among patients who have gastrointestinal cancer and particular among elderly patients.PATIENTS AND METHODS: We used the SEER-Medicare database to identify patients aged =65 years with colorectal, pancreatic, gastric, hepatic/biliary, esophageal, or anal cancer. Earlier (12 months before or up to 6 months after cancer diagnosis) and subsequent mental disorder diagnoses were identified.RESULTS: Of 112,283 patients, prevalence of an earlier mental disorder was 21%, 23%, 20%, 20%, 19%, and 26% for colorectal, pancreatic, gastric, hepatic/biliary, esophageal, and anal cancer, respectively. An increased odds of an earlier mental disorder was associated with pancreatic cancer (odds ratio [OR], 1.17; 95% CI, 1.11-1.23), esophageal cancer (OR, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.02-1.18), and anal cancer (OR, 1.17; 95% CI, 1.05-1.30) compared with colorectal cancer and with having regional versus local disease (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.06-1.13). The cumulative incidence of a subsequent mental disorder at 5 years was 19%, 16%, 14%, 13%, 12%, and 10% for patients with anal, colorectal, esophageal, gastric, hepatic/biliary, and pancreatic cancer, respectively. There was an association with having regional disease (hazard ratio [HR], 1.08; 95% CI, 1.04-1.12) or distant disease (HR, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.28-1.45) compared with local disease and the development of a mental disorder. Although the development of a subsequent mental disorder was more common among patients with advanced cancers, there continued to be a significant number of patients with earlier-stage disease at risk.CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests a larger role for incorporating psychiatric symptom screening and management throughout oncologic care.
View details for DOI 10.6004/jnccn.2020.7620
View details for PubMedID 33401234