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Five Comprehensive Reviews Of The Remarkable Anticancer Properties Of Antidepressants

posted by Julian Lieb M.D on 14 Sept 2009 at 1:56 pm

In 1998, renowned epidemiologist Brenda Penninx showed that at age 70, people that are chronically depressed have an increased risk of cancer of 88%, and a 50 % increased risk of dying of it, compared to their sanguine peers. In 2001, I published the first of five comprehensive reviews of the remarkable anticancer properties of antidepressants. More than 60 preclinical, and a few clinical studies, can be retrieved from databases, along with my reviews.

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Depression Increases Cancer Patients' Risk Of Dying

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Increases Risk Of Dying Increases Depression

posted by evelyn haskins on 06 Nov 2009 at 6:57 pm

Correlation is just that -- the interoretation that depression caused deaths is no more valid than the conclusion that people whose only apparent difference in the degree of their poor health is increased depression just might be sicker than the researcher/medicaos could tell.

Or in other words - stop blaming sick people for their own ill-health. Improve their health and their depression will ease.

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