an increasing trendP < 0.001
For the whole population, there was an increasing trend in the SMR ( Z = 3.80, P < 0.001) and AER ( Z= 3.92, P < 0.001) of suicides among cancer patients in recent years.
For the whole population, there was an increasing trend in the SMR ( Z = 3.80, P < 0.001) and AER ( Z= 3.92, P < 0.001) of suicides among cancer patients in recent years.
reported a decreasing trend of cancer-related suicide in the Multiple Cause of Death database, which included 6487 cases with cancer. 18 However, this result was limited to cancer patients among suicides rather than the reverse, so it should be interpreted with caution.