The signal of suicide rates seen from a distance in patients with pancreatic cancer

• Published in: Cancer Vol. 117; no. 3; pp. 446 - 448
• Main Author: Greenberg, Donna B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.02.2011
• Subjects: Adenocarcinoma - mortality; Adenocarcinoma - psychology; Antidepressive Agents - therapeutic use; Cancer; depression; Depressive Disorder - complications; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder - drug therapy; Historical account; Humans; pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic Neoplasms - psychology; Risk; substance abuse; suicide; Suicide - statistics & numerical data

Although suicide is rare in patients with pancreatic cancer, the higher rate of suicide signals that the anguish of clinical depression is common. Older men, more alone, with a history of substance abuse and depression, soon after diagnosis, are more at risk for suicide; attention to psychiatric syn...