Citation

Bézy O. Psycho Oncologie 2016; 10(1): 45-50.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Société française de psycho-oncologie, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11839-016-0558-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

It is classic to assert that cancer patients are less intended to commit suicide. Numbers of clinicians often report the empirical experience according to which patients with cancer commit suicide rather less than the others. It seems that this classical idea, this preconceived idea, or rather this impression (linked with the empirical experience) that cancer could act as a protection factor for suicidal risk, resists in the oncologic field against the scientific studies published on this topic that clearly indicate the opposite. Teams working in this specific context of oncology within the question of death arises inescapably, must learn from literature data and learn to know and dread the differential clinic from the suicidal crisis (wishing death, acting out). There is an emergency to clear up on these questions while this problematic is nowadays blurred by the social speech about suicide help and physician-assisted suicide. © 2016, Springer-Verlag France.

Language: fr

Keywords

human; suicide; Suicide; assisted suicide; Cancer; risk; cancer patient; physician attitude; neoplasm; Article