A disturbing link between cancer and suicide: As multiple studies point to an elevated suicide risk among patients with cancer, especially those with head and neck cancers, researchers are trying to reduce the danger.

Abstract

This news section is written by a medical journalist and offers Cancer Cytopathology readers timely information on events, issues, and personalities of interest to the subspecialty. In this issue, multiple studies have pointed to an elevated suicide risk among patients with cancer, especially those with head and neck cancers. We examine the ways in which researchers are trying to reduce the danger.