Colorectal, cervical and prostate cancer screening in Australians with severe mental illness: Retrospective nation-wide cohort study.
Karen M TuesleySusan J JordanDan J SiskindBradley J KendallMeshary Khaled N AlotibyPublished in: The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (2018)
Our results suggest that differences in screening frequency may explain some of the mismatch between cancer incidence and mortality in people with severe mental illness and indicate that action is required to improve preventive screening in this very disadvantaged group.