Cancer and suicide
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Cancer Nursing
- Vol. 3 (1) , 33-38
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00002820-198003010-00004
Abstract
Because suicide is a problem that should be anticipated in an oncological clinical practice, the many facets of suicide in the cancer situation, its incidence, its assessment, and its prevention are explored. A study done of suicide cases within the Veterans Administration in 1963 that gives clues as to which cancer patients are at particularly high risk is examined in detail. Nursing interventions which can be used by clinicans, such as assessment questions, counseling techniques, and crisis intervention methods, are presented.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: