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Objective
A diagnosis of breast cancer disrupts the life of the patient, but also the partner may experience adverse psychological effects. We examined partners' risk for first use of antidepressant medication, as a proxy for pharmacologically treated depression.
Methods
By linkage of national registers, we identified 1 420 592 depression‐free men living with a cancer‐free female partner in 1998...