Associations between breast cancer history and anxiety, depression, neurocognitive and sexual dysfunctions, and suicide. We considered that anxiolytics were being taken to treat anxiety and antidepressants to treat depression. Time since diagnosis refers to the mean/median time elapsed since the breast cancer diagnosis or completion of initial course of treatment, as reported in the original studies, for the sample of cancer survivors. When this information was not reported in the original studies, we presented the lower limit of survivorship time reported in the inclusion criteria of the study. The minimum, mean/median, and maximum follow-up of longitudinal studies are reported in the Supplementary Appendix (available online). *The original study provided relative risk estimates stratified by area of residence (urban/rural). The combined estimate presented in the forest plot was computed with inverse-variance-weighted meta-analysis methods using the command “metan” in Stata v14. BDI(-II) = Beck Depression Inventory(-II); CESD = The Center for Epidemiologic Studies, Depression Scale; GDS = Geriatric Depression Scale; HADS = Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; HRS-A = Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety; HRS-D = Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; OR = odds ratio; PR = prevalence ratio; RR = relative risk; SD = standard deviation; SDS = Self-rating Depression Scale; SIR = standardized incidence ratio; SMR = standardized mortality ratio; STAI-S = State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (state anxiety subscale); STAI-T = State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (trait anxiety subscale). †Women who have had breast reconstruction after mastectomy. ‡Refers to a group of women who had breast cancer recurrence 10 years after the first diagnosis.
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