Use of antidepressants and risk of cutaneous melanoma: a prospective registry-based case-control study
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Berge, LAMAndreassen, BK
Stenehjem, JS
Heir, T
Furu, K
Juzeniene, A
Roscher, I
Larsen, IK
Green, Adèle C
Veierod, MB
Robsahm, TE
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Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, NorwayIssue Date
2020
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PURPOSE: Melanoma is the cancer with the most rapidly rising incidence rate in Norway. Although exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is the major environmental risk factor, other factors may also contribute. Antidepressants have cancer inhibiting and promoting side effects, and their prescription rates have increased in parallel with melanoma incidence. Thus, we aimed to prospectively examine the association between use of antidepressants and melanoma by using nation-wide data from the Cancer Registry of Norway, the National Registry, the Norwegian Prescription Database and the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. PATIENT AND METHODS: All cases aged 18-85 with a primary cutaneous invasive melanoma diagnosed during 2007-2015 (n=12,099) were matched to population controls 1:10 (n=118,467) by sex and year of birth using risk-set sampling. We obtained information on prescribed antidepressants and other potentially confounding drug use (2004-2015). Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate adjusted rate ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between overall and class-specific use of antidepressants and incident melanoma. RESULTS: Compared with ≤1 prescription, ≥8 prescriptions of antidepressants overall were negatively associated with melanoma (RR 0.81 CI 0.75-0.87). Class-specific analyses showed decreased RRs for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (RR 0.82 CI 0.73-0.93) and mixed antidepressants (RR 0.77 CI 0.69-0.86). The negative association was found for both sexes, age ≥50 years, residential regions with medium and highest ambient UVR exposure, all histological subtypes, trunk, upper and lower limb sites and local disease. CONCLUSION: Use of antidepressants was associated with decreased risk of melanoma. There are at least two possible explanations for our results; cancer-inhibiting actions induced by the drug and less UVR exposure among the most frequent users of antidepressants.Citation
Berge LAM, Andreassen BK, Stenehjem JS, Heir T, Furu K, Juzeniene A, et al. Use of Antidepressants and Risk of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Prospective Registry-Based Case-Control Study. Clin Epidemiol. 2020;12:193-202.Journal
Clinical EpidemiologyDOI
10.2147/CLEP.S241249PubMed ID
32110111Additional Links
https://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S241249Type
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10.2147/CLEP.S241249
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