Malignant Tumors in the Institutionalized Psychotic Population

Family Attitudes Reported in Youth as Potential Predictors of Cancer

“…A negative relationship between these two disorders has often beer, reported (26,27). A negative relationship between these two disorders has often beer, reported (26,27).…”

Psychosomatic Aspects of Cancer

“…In a series of 295 psychotic patients (with 144 autopsies) whose death was due to cancer, Scheflen 03 noted that the incidence of death due to cancer was about twice as high in paranoid types 32 Josephy 33 3.9 1012 Lind* 2 9.8 "greater" Lucksch' 3 1. 3 10-12 Moore 63 12.5 Pool 69 3 3.9 13.5 OpsahP 3.5 11.5 Scheflen 63 8.1 13.0 as in other "endogenous" (functional) psychoses. He found no evidence of decreased incidence of cancer in hebephrenic and catatonic schizophrenics, but did observe that the disease was rather less frequent in patients with affective psychoses than in a control group.…”

“…Lewis, 41 to whom was attributed 74 the statement that "cancer is paranoia at the cell level," stated that "regressive" (hebephrenic and catatonic) schizophrenic types tend to develop tissue changes of atrophy and hypoplasia, whereas paranoid schizophrenics and patients with affective disorders tend to develop cancer or cardiovascular diseases; statistical support for this statement, as pointed out in the first section, is conflicting. Sheldon,63 in discussing psychosis, has stated that manic-depressive patients com-VOL. xxi, NO.…”

Host‐tumor Antagonism. Viii. The Psychologic Component Involved in the Host Resistance to Cancer†

“…Under the circumstances, the frequency of cancer in psychotic persons becomes of great importance. A recent article by Scheflin reviews the records of all psychotic patients and of patients with proved cases of cancer at the Worcester State Hospital between 1928 and 1942 (4).…”