Risk factors associated with suicide among kidney cancer patients: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The suicide risk was higher in kidney cancer patients than in the general population. The purpose of this study was to characterize the suicide rates among kidney cancer patients and to identify the potential risk factors associated with suicide from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.

Methods

Kidney cancer patients were identified from the SEER database during 1973-2015. Suicide rates and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) of this population were calculated, and the US general population during 1981-2015 was chosen as a reference. Univariable and multivariable Cox regression were performed to find out potential risk factors of suicide.

Results

There were 207 suicides identified among 171 819 individuals with kidney cancer obs

SUBMITTER: Guo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718588 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature