Citation

Kaceniene A, Danila E, Cicenas S, Smailyte G. Clin. Respir. J. 2018; 12(9): 2455-2456.

Affiliation

Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, M. K. Ciurlionio g. 21, LT-03101, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/crj.12916

PMID

30073786

Abstract

Several large cancer registry data based studies have demonstrated an increased risk of suicide among cancer patients compared with the general population.[1] The majority of studies reported that cancers of the lung generally carry the highest rates of patient suicides. In this study, we explored whether suicide risk is affected by a lung cancer diagnosis among cancer patients in Lithuania in relation to demographic patients and tumour characteristics and time since diagnosis. 19 781 primary lung cancer cases (16 620 men and 3 161 women) diagnosed between 1998 and 2012 were included in the analysis. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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