Risk Of Suicide Found To Be More Than Four Times Higher Among Americans With Cancer

HealthDay (1/16, Preidt) reports that “the risk of suicide is more than four times higher among Americans with cancer than those without the disease,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data on 8.6 million U.S. cancer patients diagnosed with invasive cancer…between 1973 and 2014.” The findings were published online Jan. 14 in Nature Communications.

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— “Cancer Diagnosis May Quadruple Suicide Risk, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, January 16, 2019

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