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01-05-2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: What is the Incidence of Suicide in Patients with Bone and Soft Tissue Cancer?
Author:
Kenneth R. Gundle, MD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 5/2017
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Excerpt
Siracuse and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program and found a greater incidence of suicide in patients with bone and soft-tissue cancer than the United States general population. The authors narrowed the focus of a broader study that previously reported on the higher incidence of suicide among all patients with cancer [
5]. The current study is a stark reminder of the impact of these diagnoses on patients’ lives, and that clinicians need to consider more than size, depth, and grade to guide treatment. …