Resource Tag: CANCER

The objective of this study was to measure suicide risk in cancer patients and compare it with the general population. Suicide rates were based on 1,168 suicides in 1,123,528 cancer patients in California from 1997Ð2006 and were studied by race/ethnicity, sex, site, stage, and marital status. Suicide in cancer patients is 2.3 times the general […]

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Family members of patients with cancer may reveal to the medical team that they are considering suicide after their loved one dies. No literature is available indicating how to assess risk & to intervene with these individuals. The authors describe various warning signs & seek to improve awareness & approaches to suicide prevention. 5 cases […]

This study assessed the risk of suicide among men diagnosed with prostate cancer subsequent to prostate-specific antigen testing. The number of suicides registered for cases in the PCBaSe cohort was compared with the expected number of suicides in an age-matched general male Swedish population. Standardised mortality ratios were calculated for different categories of cases. There […]

A cohort study of 342,497 American patients diagnosed with prostate cancer from January 1979-December 2004 was conducted. Follow-up started from the date of diagnosis to the end of the first 12 calendar months after diagnosis. The relative risks of suicide & cardiovascular death were calculated as standardised mortality ratios. During the follow-up, 148 men died […]

In this letter to the editor, the authors comment on Fang et al’s 2010 study & report on their own study of the risk of suicide & cardiovascular death in Swedish males diagnosed with prostate cancer. Men diagnosed with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer are at increased risk of suicide, including posttraumatic stress symptoms & […]

This study examined whether the emotional stress evoked by a prostate cancer diagnosis increases the immediate risks of cardiovascular events & suicide. A prospective cohort study was done by following all men in Sweden who were 30 years or older for a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Poisson regression models were used to caculate relative risk […]

The authors calculated standardised mortality ratios for suicide in 206,129 men & 211,443 women diagnosed with cancer in southeast England between 1996-2005, relative to suicide rates in the general population. A significantly increased risk of suicide was found in men & a moderately increased risk in women. In both genders, relative risk of suicide was […]

This study examined the causes of death that contribute most to premature mortality in Slovenia, classified premature mortality according to cause of death, age, & gender, & determined the age point before which premature mortality became a potential loss to the society. Potential economic losses were estimated by use of years of potential life lost […]

In this brief article, the authors review the literature on the risk of suicide among men diagnosed with prostate cancer. The risk of suicide is increased, particularly among patients with metastatic disease. Results indicate a need to identify signs of depression & optimize treatment among newly diagnosed patients. (10 refs.) JA

A 3-year nationwide, population-based data set was used to explore methods of suicide & possible contributing factors among cancer patients in Taiwan. A total of 1,065 cancer inpatients who died by suicide were included. The regression shows those who had genitourinary cancer were 0.55 times less likely to use violent methods for suicide than those […]

The authors tested the hypothesis that psychiatric sickness absence predicts mortality from leading medical causes. Data were derived from the French GAZEL cohort study & administrative files & linked to mortality data from France’s national registry. Analyses were done using Cox regression models. Compared to workers with no sickness absence, those absent due to psychiatric […]

This study examined whether suicides among Italian patients diagnosed with cancer during 1985-1999 had decreased with calendar time in comparison to the rate in the general population. 90,197 patients with cancer resident in Tuscany were followed up for life status to the end of 2000. Time trends were assessed by using Kernel smoothing estimators, standardized […]

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This study examined correlates of suicide ideation in a population based sample of patients with cancer. Data from the sixth National Mortality Followback Survey were analyzed for 980 individuals. Multiple logistic regression analyses included sociodemographic, health-related factors, & social support variables. Prevalence of suicide ideation was 17.7%. Suicidality was significantly more likely in patients who […]

A total of 1.3 million cancer cases from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program in the United States were analyzed. A total of 265 female & 1307 male suicides were enumerated. The high risk patient was male, with head & neck cancer or myeloma, advanced disease, little social or cultural support, & limited treatment […]

This article summarizes the epidemiologic evidence on the safety of breast implants. Topics addressed include suicide. 5 large-scale epidemiological mortality studies conducted in various populations have reported women with cosmetic breat implants have a 2-3-fold higher rate of suicide than similar-aged women in the general population. Three nationwide cohort studies in Scandinavia have been conducted […]

This study investigated the characteristics of Japanese patients referred to the psychiatric division of a hospital due to risk of suicide or suicide attempts. 14 patients were referred, representing 3.9% of all consultations. The most frequent psychiatric diagnosis was mood disorder & the next was delirium. In the 8 patients with mood disorders, suicidal thoughts […]

In this letter to the editor, the authors report on their study of suicide among patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Their hypothesis was that there was an increased relative risk of suicide among these patients compared to patients with acute myeloid leukaemia. There were 43 suicides reported to the Swedish Cause of Death Registry among […]

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