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Childhood cancer survivors may be more prone to suffer suicidal thoughts later in life than those who have remained healthy throughout childhood, according to a study released last week by a team of Harvard Medical School researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...Most of the professional intervention that these [childhood cancer survivors] get is around their physical health,” said Christopher J. Recklitis, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School. “This [report] is a reminder to practitioners that if adult survivors of cancer have multiple medical problems they may also be having significant emotional distress and it’s important to stop and ask them about that...
...study examined the possibility of a link between suicidal thinking and cancer treatment while also drawing a correlation between suicidal thought and patient’s self-assessments of their current health. Those patients who indicated that they were in poor health did register higher incidences of suicidal thought, the study showed...
...report findings indicated that nearly eight percent of childhood cancer survivors reported suicidal thinking compared to only 4.6 percent among a control group composed of the survivor’s siblings...
...study surveyed a little over 9,000 adult survivors of childhood cancer and nearly 3,000 siblings already participating in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study...