Psychiatric admission in female survivors of childhood and young adult cancer: a whole population retrospective study

BACKGROUND: The last 40 years have seen a substantial improvement in overall survival from cancer in children and young people. There is limited information on psychiatric wellbeing in female survivors of cancer at a young age. OBJECTIVE: In this 40-year population-based linkage study, we set out to determine the incidence of first psychiatric admission compared with a non-exposed age-matched control. METHODS: Scottish cancer registry records from 1981 to 2012 were linked to psychiatric admissions, maternity and death records from January 1981 to September 2018 using the unique personal Community Health Index number allocated to each person in Scotland. For each exposed subject, three age and deprivation matched controls from the population were selected. The primary exposed group was all females with a cancer diagnosis at age