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Table 2 Number of hospital admissions during follow-up

From: Mental disorders around cancer diagnosis and increased hospital admission rate - a nationwide cohort study of Swedish cancer patients

 

All patients

Unexposed patients

Stress-related mental disordersa

Other mental disordersb

 
 

N

N

Median (Range)

N

Median (Range)

N

Median (Range)

P d

Any cancer

218,508

210,809

1 (0–57)

4105

2 (0–68)

3594

1 (0–75)

< 0.01

 Prostate cancer

50,393

49,458

1 (0–45)

521

2 (0–33)

414

1 (0–20)

< 0.01

 Breast cancer

33,734

32,466

1 (0–45)

706

1 (0–37)

562

1 (0–18)

< 0.01

 Lung cancer

12,676

11,932

2 (0–57)

338

2 (0–31)

406

2 (0–18)

0.31

 Colorectal cancer

25,733

24,650

1 (0–43)

518

2 (0–68)

565

1 (0–75)

< 0.01

 Melanoma

10,905

10,695

0 (0–27)

125

1 (0–14)

85

1 (0–10)

< 0.01

 Hematological cancers

14,264

13,734

2 (0–43)

305

2 (0–28)

225

1 (0–30)

< 0.01

 Renal/Bladder cancer

14,666

14,093

2 (0–36)

277

2 (0–28)

296

2 (0–22)

< 0.05

 Severe cancersc

4223

3989

2 (0–38)

135

1 (0–19)

99

1 (0–17)

< 0.01

  1. a Stress-related mental disorders included depression, anxiety, stress reaction and adjustment disorder, mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use, and somatoform/conversion disorder
  2. b Other mental disorders included organic, tobacco abuse, schizophrenia, affective, neurotic, physiological/physical factors related, personality, retardation, psychological development, and unspecified disorders
  3. c Severe cancers included esophageal, liver, and pancreatic cancers
  4. d Nonparametric tests were used to test the median and range differences