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Fig. 3 | BMC Medicine

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From: Physical disability and psychological distress before and after a diagnosis of cancer: evidence on multiple cancer types from a large Australian cohort study, compared to people without a cancer diagnosis

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Change in psychological distress between surveys among cancer survivors (before to after cancer diagnosis) by type of cancer diagnosed, compared to change among people without cancer

NHL non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, SD standard deviation. Psychological distress was assessed using Kessler-10 (K10), which ranges from 10 (no distress) to 50 (severe distress); a score < 16 indicates low distress. *Crude means of within participant changes in psychological distress (K10 score at follow-up minus K10 score at baseline). ^Difference between those diagnosed with cancer and those without cancer in change in K10 scores, adjusted for age at follow-up, sex, education, residence, country of birth, months of follow-up and baseline K10 score. Diagnosis codes grouped under “other cancer” and the corresponding numbers of participants are included in Additional file 1: Table S1.3. The number of participants with breast cancer includes eight males. They were excluded from subsequent analyses

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