In this fortnight’s Mind Matters column, titled “Mental health and cervical cancer” in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the original research paper, “Psychiatric morbidities in patients of carcinoma cervix” by Adya Shanker Srivastava, Akhilesh Shukla, Sulekha Pandey, AK Asthana, Maheshwar Nath Tripathi, Balram Pandit, and Jai Singh Yadav, that was published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue) of OJPAS®.