TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Suicide among cancer patients
JO  - Nature communications
A1  - Zaorsky, Nicholas G.
A1  - Zhang, Ying
A1  - Tuanquin, Leonard
A1  - Bluethmann, Shirley M.
A1  - Park, Henry S.
A1  - Chinchilli, Vernon M.
SP  - e207
EP  - e207
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2041-1723
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08170-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -