Increasing disparities in cancer screening among people with severe mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan.
• ² Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
• ³ Division of Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Biostatistics and Data Management, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan.
• ⁶ Division of Supportive Care, Survivorship and Translational Research, Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁷ Group for Supportive Care and Survivorship Research, Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan. Electronic address: minagaki@med.shimane-u.ac.jp.