Open AccessCoincident Patterns of Suicide Risk Among Adult Patients with a Primary Solid Tumor: A Large-Scale Population Study
Author(s) -
Wen Ma,
Wentao Wu,
Rong Fu,
Shuai Zheng,
Ruhai Bai,
Jun Lyu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s300740
Subject(s) - medicine , scale (ratio) , population , primary (astronomy) , demography , environmental health , cartography , sociology , physics , astronomy , geography
Suicide rate is much higher in cancer patients than in general population. This study examined the suicide risk in survivors of primary solid tumor across 19 cancer sites considering risk coincident patterns based on area-based SES indicators.