Suicide among cancer patients

Nicholas G. Zaorsky; Ying Zhang; Leonard Tuanquin; Shirley M. Bluethmann; Henry S. Park; Vernon M. Chinchilli

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08170-1

Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Suicide among cancer patients

Nicholas G. Zaorsky,
Ying Zhang,
Leonard Tuanquin,
Shirley M. Bluethmann,
Henry S. Park,
Vernon M. Chinchilli

Affiliations

Nicholas G. Zaorsky: Department of Radiation Oncology, Penn State Cancer Institute
Ying Zhang: Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine
Leonard Tuanquin: Department of Radiation Oncology, Penn State Cancer Institute
Shirley M. Bluethmann: Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine
Henry S. Park: Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale
Vernon M. Chinchilli: Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08170-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Cancer patients are at an increased risk of suicide: elderly, white, unmarried males with localized disease are at highest risk vs other cancer patients. Among those diagnosed at 50, from prostate, lung, and colorectal cancer patients.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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