Thursday, 5 April 2012

Suicide, heart conflict risk soars on cancer diagnosis: study

People diagnosed with cancer have a neatly aloft risk of self-murder and deadly heart attacks immediately after receiving their diagnosis, a Swedish investigate published on Thursday showed.


“Previous studies have shown that cancer patients are during aloft risk of self-murder and cardiovascular disease, that adult until now has especially been ascribed to a romantic aria of vital with a potentially deadly illness and a mostly physically perfectionist cancer treatment,” a Karolinska Institute conspicuous in a statement.


“Newly published information on patients with prostate cancer suggest, however, that being given a diagnosis may, in itself, be compared with a noted boost in a stress-related illness and death,” it said.


The study, published in a New England Journal of Medicine, followed some-more than 6 million Swedes from 2001 to 2006, including some-more than 500,000 who were diagnosed with canc...

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