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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Breast Cancer Sufferer - High Risky Suicide

The woman who had suffered breasts cancer had the risk of the suicide 37% higher compared with the woman who had not suffered breasts cancer, and the increase in this risk of continuing to take place at least till 25 years after the diagnosis, according to the report in the National Journal of the Cancer Institute.

The research beforehand researched concerning the risk of the suicide in the women who had suffered breasts cancer, but most did not research the long-term risk and not a single involved the woman in the United States (the USA), according to Dr. Catherine Schairer and his colleagues, from the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland.

Their research involved one of the analyst's data from 723. 810 women who had suffered breasts cancer that was diagnosed suffered cancer between 1953 and 2001 and were included in the list of the inhabitants who suffered cancer in the USA and Scandinavia. In the further research until 2002, around 836 women among them carried out the suicide.

Compared with the public's population, the woman with breasts cancer had in general the suicide as big as 4,1 per 100 thousand women each year.

After 25 years or more, the woman who had been diagnosed suffered breasts cancer still had the risk of the suicide higher 35% were compared by the woman without breasts cancer. The risk of the suicide also increasingly big with the increase in the cancer stage, according to the researcher.

“Although the accumulation of the small suicide opportunity, results of the research suggested that the long-term maintenance program ought to for the woman who had suffered breasts cancer involve sides that cared and understood psychology,” the research concluded.