[Suicide and cancer]. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Epidemiological studies demonstrate that cancer patients are at increased risk of suicide. While affective illness and alcoholism are the most important determinants of suicide in the physically healthy population, vulnerability to suicide in cancer patients is influenced by a number of other factors including psychosocial and psychosomatic effects of advanced illness, pain, organic mental syndromes and preexisting psychopathology. Ways of influencing these risk factors are discussed, together with their use in preventive care and management of suicidal cancer patients.

publication date

  • June 24, 1989

Research

keywords

  • Neoplasms
  • Suicide

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0024393179

PubMed ID

  • 2667128

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 119

issue

  • 25