Partners of breastcancer sufferers in mental health risk

MEN whose partners have breast cancer are more likely to be taken to hospital with mental health problems than other men, according to a new study.

Researchers followed more than a million men and found those whose long-term partners were diagnosed with breast cancer were more than a third (39%) more likely than those whose partner did not have the disease to suffer an affective disorder so severe that they needed hospital care.

Affective disorders included major depression and bipolar disease.