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Suicide, Cancer and Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. A. Whitlock
F. A. Whitlock*
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia
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Summary

A comparison has been made between persons aged 50 and over dying from suicide and a matched control group of persons dying from other violent causes with respect to the incidence of malignant neoplasms and benign intracranial tumours found at autopsy. Significantly more of the suicide cases were found to have cancer, meningiomas and benign pituitary tumours. The implications of this finding and the relationship between depression and neoplasia are discussed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 3 , March 1978 , pp. 269 - 274
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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