A new study conducted at the Penn State Cancer Institute has found a significant correlation between cancer diagnosis and risk of committing suicide. According to radiation oncologist Dr. Nicholas Zaorsky, "even though cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, most cancer patients do not die from cancer; the patients usually die of another cause." Of these multiple other causes, distress and depression, potentially leading to suicide occurs 4 times more often than in the general population. These findings stress the importance of screening cancer patients for forms of mental distress.
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Source mentioned: Zaorsky NG, Zhang Y, Tuanquin L, Bluethmann S, Park HS, Chinchilli VM. Suicide among cancer patients. Nat Commun. 2019; 10(1): 207.
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