Suicide Risk among Incident Cases of Cancer in the Swiss Canton of Vaud
作者:
Fabio Levi,
Jean-Luc Bulliard,
Carlo La Vecchia,
期刊:
Oncology
(Karger Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 48,
issue 1
页码: 44-47
ISSN:0030-2414
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1159/000226893
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Suicides, observed/expected;Cancer, incident cases;Vaud, Switzerland
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Data collected by the Cancer Registry of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, were used to estimate the risk of suicide for patients diagnosed with cancer. Among 24,166 cases of invasive neoplasms other than nonmelanomatous skin cancer reported between 1976 and 1987 and followed through integrated active follow-up to the end of 1987, for a total of 57,164 person years at risk, there were 55 registered suicides vs. 21.3 expected (standardized mortality ratio, SMR = 2.6; 95% confidence interval, CI = 2.0–3.4). The ratio was slightly, but not significantly higher for males (SMR = 2.8) than for females (SMR = 2.2) and comparable across subsequent age groups. The risk of suicide was high during the 1st year after notification (SMR = 3.9) and decreased to 2.2 between 1 and 5 years and to 1.5 over 5 years. This study suggests that the risk of suicide after a diagnosis of cancer may be greater than previously estimated from cancer registry data in Finland, Sweden, and Connecticut (USA), at least in this population of Central Europe with high overall suicide rates.
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