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Filed under: ResearchProstate cancer can increase a man’s odds for either suicide of fatal heart attack, according to a research group at Harvard Medical School.
A cancer diagnosis is stressful, and that stress can cause a number of changes in cardiovascular risk factors. Those, coupled with underlying health conditions, may be more likely to drive someone to suicide.
Although doctors focused on those recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, they believe that the results will be similar for patients with other types of cancer. The researchers plan to do a similar study of breast and colon cancer patients.
The researchers started with prostate cancer because they wanted to test whether the widespread use of screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test has made a difference….
Original post by The Cancer Blog and software by Elliott Back
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