Mental Health Comorbidities and Elevated Risk of Opioid Use in Elderly Breast Cancer Survivors Using Adjuvant Endocrine Treatments | Zendy

Raj Desai | Zendy; Fabian Camacho | Zendy; Xi Tan | Zendy; Virginia LeBaron | Zendy; Leslie Blackhall | Zendy; Rajesh Balkrishnan | Zendy

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Mental Health Comorbidities and Elevated Risk of Opioid Use in Elderly Breast Cancer Survivors Using Adjuvant Endocrine Treatments

Author(s) -

Raj Desai,

Fabian Camacho,

Xi Tan,

Virginia LeBaron,

Leslie Blackhall,

Rajesh Balkrishnan

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of oncology practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.555

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 1935-469X

pISSN - 1554-7477

DOI - 10.1200/jop.18.00781

Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , comorbidity , hazard ratio , population , odds ratio , mental health , depression (economics) , proportional hazards model , cancer , oncology , psychiatry , confidence interval , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics

Prolonged opioid use is common and associated with lower survival rates in breast cancer survivors. We explored whether opioid use in elderly breast cancer survivors using adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) regimens was affected by the prevalence of mental health comorbidity and, in turn, how this affected survival in this population.

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