New study indicates that cancer patients have an increased risk of depression - via healthing_ca .AmericanCancer cancersociety healthing health Cancer mentalhealth
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Location also played an important part: people in the U.S. were much more likely to attempt or complete suicide than people in Europe, Asia or Australia. Higher health-care costs and easy access to firearms in the U.S. were possible explanations, researchers suggested. They found that depression was the most common of these illnesses, with anxiety close behind. They also found that self-harm was most likely in people with brain tumours, prostate cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, testicular cancer and melanoma.
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