Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Raises Suicide Risk 90 Percent

In matters of health, it seems, as in matters of every other thing on the planet, one bad thing leads to another. Researchers at Harvard Medical School who studied the data on 340,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1979 and 2004 found that just getting the bad news can increase the likelihood that a man will commit suicide by 90 percent in the three months trailing the diagnosis. Wait, there's more bad news. The same researchers found that a prostate cancer finding can double the risk of heart attack in the month immediately following the unfortunate revelation. Scared yet? Try reading an excerpt in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Or read more from HealthDay.