Open AccessPrognosis in metastatic lung cancer: vitamin D deficiency and depression—a cross-sectional analysis
Author(s) -
Daniel C. McFarland,
Madalyn Fernbach,
William Breitbart,
Christian J. Nelson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bmj supportive and palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 2045-4368
pISSN - 2045-435X
DOI - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002457
Subject(s) - medicine , vitamin d deficiency , depression (economics) , lung cancer , hospital anxiety and depression scale , hazard ratio , cancer , vitamin d and neurology , concomitant , oncology , proportional hazards model , anxiety , psychiatry , confidence interval , economics , macroeconomics
Depression and vitamin D deficiency are common in patients with lung cancer and have prognostic implications in cancer settings. However, their relationship and concomitant survival implications have not been evaluated in patients with metastatic lung cancer specifically. We hypothesised that vitamin D deficiency would be associated with depression and inferior cancer-related survival in patients receiving therapies for stage IV lung cancer.