Elderly women with breast cancer who have severe mental illness have twice the risk of all-cause mortality as their peers without mental illness, and need more screening, surveillance, and coordinated care from primary care providers and specialists, researchers said. Results from a large retrospective cohort study revealed an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 2.19 in breast cancer patients with severe mental illness compared with those without, according to Melissa L. Santorelli, PhD, of Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, New Jersey, and colleagues...