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Overall, the authors point out, the absolute risk of suicide was small; among the more than 340,000 cases studied, 148 men died of suicide. But the relative risk was still quite large, says study co-author Lorelei Mucci, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...
...prostate cancer, particularly those who had advanced disease, were also at a slightly higher risk of dying from a heart attack or another cardiovascular event within the first year. The risk was highest during the first month after diagnosis. (See "The Year in Health...
...findings underscore the importance of addressing these consequences in the doctor's office, along with the patient's physical disease. Previous studies have shown that traumatic events - the loss of a loved one, for instance, or a natural disaster such as an earthquake - can raise a survivor's risk of a heart event. Although the authors have not directly compared these events to the impact of a cancer diagnosis, they believe the aftermath may be similar. "Any acute stress event, including a cancer diagnosis, would have the same effect," says Mucci...
...worth noting, however, that Mucci and her colleagues detected the increased suicide and heart risk only in men diagnosed with cancer before the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test became available in the 1980s. PSA screening allows doctors to pick up tumors at earlier stages, which makes treatment potentially more effective, less invasive and possibly less disfiguring - and makes a diagnosis of prostate cancer far less menacing. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...while the benefits of this announcement are laudable, one part of Gates’s presentation of this effort has stirred some controversy—with good reason. During the initial announcement of this campaign, Gates outlined the risk of governments diverting aid normally marked for health toward climate change, emphasizing that health must still remain a top priority, even with all of the current data on global warming available. He justified a continued prioritization on health by arguing that better health worldwide will lead to reduced birth rates, thereby diminishing mankind’s contribution to climate change...