Why the study?
Does a recent cancer diagnosis increase the risk of suicide and cardiovascular death compared to cancer-free persons?
Does a recent cancer diagnosis increase the risk of suicide and cardiovascular death compared to cancer-free persons?
A recent cancer diagnosis is associated with an increased risk of both suicide and cardiovascular death.
May warrant closer post-diagnosis monitoring for suicide and CV death; leaves open causal mechanisms and intervention effects.
In this large cohort study, patients who had recently received a cancer diagnosis had increased risks of both suicide and death from cardiovascular causes, as compared with cancer-free persons. (Funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and others.).
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Fang et al. (2012) studied this question.
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