Background: Prior research provides suggestive evidence on an association between stress-related disorders and mortality. No previous study has however addressed the role of familial confounding on such association. Methods: We conducted a nationwide ...

Prior research has suggested a potential role of psychological stress on cancer development while the role of familial factors on this association is underexplored. We conducted a nationwide cohort study including 167,836 individuals with a first-onset ...

Background Except for overall survival, whether or not waiting time for treatment could influences other domains of cancer patients’ overall well-being is to a large extent unknown. Therefore, we performed this study to determine the effect of waiting ...