@article{ref1,
title="Suicide among cancer patients",
journal="Nature communications",
year="2019",
author="Zaorsky, Nicholas G. and Zhang, Ying and Tuanquin, Leonard and Bluethmann, Shirley M. and Park, Henry S. and Chinchilli, Vernon M.",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="e207-e207",
abstract="Our purpose is to identify cancer patients at highest risk of suicide compared to the general population and other cancer patients. This is a retrospective, population-based study using nationally representative data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program, 1973-2014. Among 8,651,569 cancer patients, 13,311 committed suicide; the rate of suicide was 28.58/ 100,000-person years, and the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) of suicide was 4.44 (95% CI, 4.33, 4.55). The predominant patients who committed suicide were male (83%) and white (92%). Cancers of the lung, head and neck, testes, bladder, and Hodgkin lymphoma had the highest SMRs ( > 5-10) through the follow up period. Elderly, white, unmarried males with localized disease are at highest risk vs other cancer patients. Among those diagnosed at < 50 years of age, the plurality of suicides is from hematologic and testicular tumors; if > 50, from prostate, lung, and colorectal cancer patients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2041-1723",
doi="10.1038/s41467-018-08170-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08170-1"
}