Zelfmoordrisico quadrupled in cancer patients

Medical Cancer is worldwide one of the main causes of death, in fact dying, many cancer patients not the cancer itself, but a result. So quadruples the risk of suicide after diagnosis. That according to a study from Penn State College of Medicine in the United States.

For the research were the data of more than eight million cancer patients in the US under the microscope. The data were from men, women, children and the elderly. More than 13,000 patients committed suicide after the diagnosis. In ratio is that number four times as large as in the healthy population. the

Also, was there in the first place, no distinction is made between the different types of cancer. Happened, it turned out that young white men with lung cancer, a head-halstumor, testicle, or lymphoma, the largest part of the zelfmoordslachtoffers part.

Read also Ex-cancer patients to engage in endurance sports: "We feel stronger than before the illness" Consequences of cancer

Cancer is a leading cause of death in the United States -and also in Belgium, where heart disease is the major cause of death, followed by cancer - in reality die most cancer patients, not cancer, but the consequences including suicide. “Depression is often a result of the diagnosis,” said Nicholas Zaorsky, oncologist at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. “This depression can eventually lead to suicide.”

(continue Reading below the picture)