ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2022
Antidepressant medication use and prostate cancer recurrence in men with depressive disorders.
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- New highlights in cancer and depression multimorbidity: a scoping systematic review.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
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Abstract
purposeWhether treating prostate cancer survivors with a depressive disorder with antidepressants can affect their cancer outcomes is unknown. We evaluated the association between antidepressant use and prostate cancer recurrence, in survivors with comorbid depressive disorders.
methodsWe conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 10,017 men with prostate cancer (stages I-II) diagnosed who also had a comorbid depressive disorder followed a maximum of 22 years, and examined rates of biochemical recurrence by antidepressant medication use. We conducted multivariable Cox models based on time-dependent antidepressant drug use status, and examined the risk of biochemical recurrence by cumulative duration of antidepressant use.
resultsOf these 10,017 survivors, 1842 (18%) experienced biochemical recurrence over 69,500 person-years of follow-up. The prostate cancer biochemical recurrence rate was greater with antidepressant non-use (31.3/1000 person-years) compared to antidepressant use (23.5/1000 person-years). In Cox proportional hazards multivariable adjusted models, non-use of antidepressants was associated with a 34% increased risk of biochemical recurrence compared to antidepressant use (HR = 1.34, 95% CI: 1.24-1.44). Longer use of antidepressants was associated with a lower biochemical recurrence risk (P trend test < 0.001).
conclusionUntreated depressive disorders in prostate cancer patients may be associated with an increased risk of biochemical recurrence.
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