The mediating role of health behaviors in the association between depression, anxiety and cancer incidence: an individual participant data meta-analysis

CONCLUSIONS: Smoking constitutes a mediating pathway linking depression and anxiety to lung cancer and smoking-related cancers. Our findings underline the importance of smoking cessation interventions for persons with depression or anxiety.PMID:38680088 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291724000850

Source: Psychological Medicine - April 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kuan-Yu Pan Lonneke van Tuijl Maartje Basten Judith J M Rijnhart Alexander de Graeff Joost Dekker Mirjam I Geerlings Adriaan Hoogendoorn Adelita V Ranchor Roel Vermeulen L ützen Portengen Adri C Voogd Jessica Abell Philip Awadalla Aartjan T F Beekman Ott Source Type: research