Citation

Ward KK, Roncancio AM, Plaxe SC. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2013; 43(1): 109-115.

Affiliation

Department of Reproductive Medicine, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12002

PMID

23278597

Abstract

To evaluate risk of suicide of women with invasive gynecologic malignancies, the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (1973-2007) was queried. Suicide per 100,000 women with gynecologic malignancies was compared with that of women with other malignancies; suicide was 30% more likely in those with gynecologic malignancies. Most suicides occurred within 4 years of diagnosis. Better understanding of the descriptive epidemiology of suicide among women with gynecologic malignancies could lead to improved risk assessment, screening, and prevention of this potentially avoidable cause of death.

Language: en