Cancer patients have 55% greater risk of suicide, study finds

Co-author says results are preliminary but nevertheless significant in study seeking to quantify the increased risk

Cancer patients have a 55% greater risk of suicide than people without the potentially deadly disease, according to preliminary research findings.

Previous research has found suicide rates to be higher than in the general population but a paper being presented at this week’s European Congress of Psychiatry in Florence, Italy is an attempt to quantify the size of the increased risk.

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