Cancer diagnosis and risk of suicide after accounting for prediagnosis psychiatric care: A matched-cohort study of patients with incident solid-organ malignancies.
Zachary KlaassenChristopher J D WallisThenappan ChandrasekarHanan GoldbergRashid K SayyidStephen B WilliamsKelvin A MosesMartha K TerrisRobert K NamDavid UrbachPeter C AustinPaul KurdyakGirish S KulkarniPublished in: Cancer (2019)
A cancer diagnosis is associated with increased risk of death from suicide compared with the general population even after accounting for precancer diagnosis psychiatric care utilization. The specific factors underlying the observed associations remain to be elucidated.