Analysis of anticancer drug associated adverse reactions in depressive patients from vigibase

Basile Chretien, Charles Dolladille, Kazuki Nishida, Branko Aleksic, Joachim Alexandre, Jean-Matthieu L’orphelin · 2025

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Chretien and five co-authors mine the world's largest side-effect database for cancer patients with depression, in this two thousand twenty-five study. Depression is common in oncology and may color how patients experience and report drug side effects.

From nearly nine million reports in VigiBase spanning nineteen sixty-eight to two thousand twenty-four, about four hundred twenty-eight thousand involved patients on antidepressants. Those patients' reports were far more likely to describe serious reactions, and reports of fatigue, pain, and headache were all markedly higher. When the antidepressant was started made little difference. The authors urge clinicians to watch this group closely, since treating depression well may ease side-effect burden and help patients stay on therapy.

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CREATORBasile Chretien, Charles Dolladille, Kazuki Nishida, Branko Aleksic, Joachim Alexandre, Jean-Matthieu L’orphelin
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE48 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12756327

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