Surgery and Suicide Deaths Among Patients With Cancer

Michael L Chen; Scarlett L Gomez; Ruth O'Hara; Esther M John; Arden M Morris; Allison W Kurian; Eleni Linos

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.31414

Surgery and Suicide Deaths Among Patients With Cancer

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2431414. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.31414.

Authors

Michael L Chen^{1

2}, Scarlett L Gomez³, Ruth O'Hara^{4

5}, Esther M John^{6

7

8}, Arden M Morris^{8

9

10}, Allison W Kurian^{6

7

8}, Eleni Linos^{1

2

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Digital Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
² Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
⁵ Sierra Pacific Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
⁸ Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
⁹ Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
¹⁰ Stanford-Surgery Policy Improvement Research and Education Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study describes suicide incidence among patients with cancer compared with the general population and by surgical status and cancer treatment.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms* / mortality
Neoplasms* / psychology
Suicide* / psychology
Suicide* / statistics & numerical data
Surgical Procedures, Operative / mortality
Surgical Procedures, Operative / psychology
Surgical Procedures, Operative / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology