{"id":202166,"date":"2025-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/loneliness-social-isolation-tied-to-higher-mortality-in-patients-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:10:22","slug":"loneliness-social-isolation-tied-to-higher-mortality-in-patients-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/loneliness-social-isolation-tied-to-higher-mortality-in-patients-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness, Social Isolation Tied to Higher Mortality in Patients With Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Findings seen for both cancer-specific and all-cause mortality<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b>By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter<\/b><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Loneliness and social isolation may be associated with increased mortality in patients with cancer, according to a study published online Oct. 14 in&nbsp;<em>BMJ Oncology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Cheng, from the University of Toronto, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to investigate the association between mortality and loneliness and social isolation among cancer populations. <\/p>\n<p>Based on 13 studies, the meta-analysis revealed loneliness and social isolation were associated with increased all-cause mortality (hazard ratio, 1.34; P &lt; 0.001) and cancer-specific mortality (hazard ratio, 1.11; P = 0.014).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial isolation and loneliness are thought to increase mortality risk in patients with cancer through interconnected biological, psychological, and behavioral mechanisms,\u201d the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bmjoncology.bmj.com\/content\/4\/1\/e000840\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Copyright &#169; 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings seen for both cancer-specific and all-cause mortality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-202166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}