Open AccessCancer Screening Among Adults With and Without Serious Mental Illness
Author(s) -
Karly A. Murphy,
Elizabeth M. Stone,
Rachel Presskreischer,
Emma E. McGinty,
Gail L. Daumit,
Craig Evan Pollack
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001499
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer screening , population , cancer , odds ratio , prostate cancer screening , mental illness , colorectal cancer , confidence interval , prostate cancer , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , breast cancer , psychiatry , family medicine , mental health , prostate specific antigen , environmental health
Persons with serious mental illness (SMI) die 10-20 years earlier than the general population; cancer is the second leading cause of death. Differences in cancer screening between SMI and the general population are not well understood.