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Suicide among cancer patients.
Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT07409584 (Mental Health and Suicidality in Glioblastoma Patients in Germany - a Multicenter Observational Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 164 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mental Health and Suicidality in Glioblastoma Patients in Germany - a Multicenter Observational Study (SHINE-GLIO Study)
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164 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Key challenges in communication across milestones of cancer care continuum: a systematic review.BMC palliative care · 2026Pooled it
- Suicide and Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis and Narrative Synthesis.Psycho-oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Suicide and Suicidal Ideation Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Exercise Interventions for Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life in Older Adults With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence of suicidal ideation, attempts and associated risk factors in oral cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2025Pooled it
- Suicide Mortality Risk among Patients with Lung Cancer-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of lung cancer and mesothelioma.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2022Guideline
- The Difficult Task of Diagnosing Depression in Elderly People with Cancer: A Systematic Review.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2021Pooled it
- A nomogram for suicide-specific mortality risk stratification in patients with tongue cancer: a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-based study, 2004-2017.Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- Mental health and suicidality in glioblastoma patients in germany - a multicenter cross-sectional observational study protocol (SHINE-GLIO Study).Neurological research and practice · 2026Article
- Depression, non-medical pain prescriptions, and suicidal behavior in cancer survivors.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Article
- Rural-urban disparities in cardiovascular and other competing risk of death among cancer patients.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Suicide among patients with cancer: a retrospective study of medical treatment-related factors associated with suicide.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Suicide risk in people with tuberculosis in Republic of Korea: a nationwide cohort, 2012-2021.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Article
- Cancer incidence and mortality trends among older adults.npj aging · 2026Article
- Association between Metastatic Cancer, Chemotherapy, and Suicide Risks: An Analysis Across 700 U.S. Trauma Centers.Clinical medicine & research · 2026Article
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- Impact of psychological nursing on anxiety, depression, wound healing, and satisfaction in patients with superficial basal cell carcinoma.World journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Suicide risk in prostate cancer patients: epidemiological trends and a predictive modeling.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Suicidal Ideation Among Patients With Breast Cancer: A Comparison of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Item 9 and Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
104 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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- Erratum issued
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6 authors.
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Abstract
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.
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