Reduced Risk of Cancer in Schizophrenia, a Bridge Toward Etio-Pathology and Therapy of Both Diseases

摘要: Schizophrenia (SCZ), a major mental disease, is associated with reduced risk for different types of cancers, the exception breast, endometrial and pancreatic cancers. The lower cancer in first-degree relatives SCZ patients rules out drug effects as cause SCZ. While genetic polymorphisms were attributed to SCZ, since hundreds genes have been linked effect size each gene small (< 1 %), cannot be due specific polymorphisms. same true cancer, changes are correlated only 5–10 % all