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.
Highlights
It was estimated that there would be 23 820 new cases of central nervous system tumors in the US in 2019, along with 17 760 deaths.[1]
The observed to expected (O/E) event ratio was calculated to determine the change in suicide risk following diagnosis in comparison with the general population, in which expected number of events is the number of people estimated to die of the same cause in a demographically similar general population within the same period
A total of 87 785 patients with brain cancer diagnosed between January 2000 and December 2016 were included in the analysis, of whom 29 patients (0.03%) died by suicide and 33 993 (38.7%) died of cancer and other causes within the first year of their diagnosis
Summary
It was estimated that there would be 23 820 new cases of central nervous system tumors in the US in 2019, along with 17 760 deaths.[1]. This new work aims to investigate the increase in suicide rate associated with diagnosis with brain cancer.
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