TY - JOUR PY - 1993// TI - [Suffering and suicide in tumor patients] JO - Schweizerische Rundschau fur Medizin Praxis A1 - Stiefel, F. SP - 260 EP - 262 VL - 82 IS - 9 N2 - Epidemiological studies demonstrate that cancer patients are at increased risk for suicide. Vulnerability to suicide in cancer patients is influenced by a number of factors, including psychosocial and psychosomatic effects of advanced illness, pain, organic mental syndromes and pre-existing psychopathology. Ways of influencing these risk factors are discussed, together with their use in preventive care and management of suicidal cancer patients.

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