Association of Brain Cancer With Risk of Suicide

Anas M Saad; Abdelmagid M Elmatboly; Mohamed M Gad; Muneer J Al-Husseini; Khalid A Jazieh; Muayad A Alzuabi; Ahmad Samir Alfaar

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3862

Association of Brain Cancer With Risk of Suicide

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 May 1;3(5):e203862. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3862.

Authors

Anas M Saad¹, Abdelmagid M Elmatboly², Mohamed M Gad^{3

4}, Muneer J Al-Husseini⁵, Khalid A Jazieh³, Muayad A Alzuabi⁶, Ahmad Samir Alfaar^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Ascension St John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
⁶ Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
⁷ Experimental Ophthalmology, Charité-Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁸ Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

Abstract

This cohort study examines outcomes of patients with brain cancer to provide demographic details on the increase in suicide rate after brain cancer diagnosis.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Brain Neoplasms / psychology*
Ethnicity
Female
Glioblastoma / psychology*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Risk Factors
SEER Program
Sex Factors
Suicide / statistics & numerical data*
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult