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Care of the total person involves not just professional help, but support from friends and family. Mucci found that men who were given their diagnosis in the presence of their families were less likely to kill themselves than those who bore the news alone. Having a social support network may not take the cancer away, but it could help ease the anxiety of learning to live with...
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...
...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...
...they should be provided these services as part of their overall cancer care. "We think the diagnosis of cancer is a teachable moment, when clinicians need to really be involved in thinking not only, what am I going to do to treat this cancer, but the total person," says Mucci. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...