Suicide Among Lung Cancer Patients

Hannah Nichols has written a surprise article on the elevated risk of suicide among lung cancer patients. New research was presented at the American Thoracic Society’s 2017 international conference regarding this elevated suicide risk.

The American Cancer Society reports that excluding skin cancer, lung cancer is the second most common form of cancer in the U.S. today, and the leading cause of cancer-associated death for both men and women alike.

With lung cancer the symptoms are not often noticed until it has spread throughout the lungs or to other parts of the body. Because of a lack of symptoms in …read more