# Psychosomatics at the threshold: cancer, mood disorders, and the mental pain of death — where precision medicine meets spirituality

**Authors:** Mauro Giovanni Carta, Antonio Egidio Nardi

PMC · DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1751310 · Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2026-02-10

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- **Genes:** HTR2B (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2B) [NCBI Gene 3357] {aka 5-HT(2B), 5-HT-2B, 5-HT2B}, HTR1A (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 1A) [NCBI Gene 3350] {aka 5-HT-1A, 5-HT1A, 5HT1a, ADRB2RL1, ADRBRL1, G-21}
- **Diseases:** functional impairment (MESH:D003072), chronic diseases (MESH:D002908), multiple sclerosis (MESH:D009103), oncological (MESH:D000072716), functional disability (MESH:D003291), mania (MESH:D001714), mood disorders (MESH:D019964), stomach and pancreatic cancer (MESH:D013274), breast and prostate cancer (MESH:D001943), depression (MESH:D003866), anxiety (MESH:D001007), myocardial infarction (MESH:D009203), fibromyalgia (MESH:D005356), lung cancer (MESH:D008175), COVID-19 (MESH:D000086382), diabetes (MESH:D003920), Cancer (MESH:D009369), pain (MESH:D010146), malnutrition (MESH:D044342), Death (MESH:D003643), colon cancer (MESH:D015179), disease (MESH:D004194), inflammatory (MESH:D007249), prostate cancer (MESH:D011471)
- **Chemicals:** Serotonin (MESH:D012701), alcohol (MESH:D000438), testosterone (MESH:D013739), taxanes (MESH:D043823), methotrexate (MESH:D008727), cortisol (MESH:D006854), platinum (MESH:D010984), serotonergic antidepressants (-), melatonin (MESH:D008550)
- **Species:** Nicotiana tabacum (American tobacco, species) [taxon 4097], Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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