Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: Increased Risk for Cardiovascular Effects and Suicide
December 14th, 2009 admin
Finding out you have cancer is life-changing, frightening and devastating. You don’t know what to think about your future and it effects you in a number of ways. You become extremely stressed, which can lead you to depression or heart attack according to a new study. According to PLoS Medicine , researchers found that rates of suicide increased one week and cardiovascular events increased after a year of men being newly diagnosed with prostate cancer. The cause of this is primarily due to the emotional stress associated with the prostate cancer diagnosis. Helping Your Loved One with Prostate Cancer Diagnosis To help your loved one cope with prostate cancer diagnosis to prevent suicide and cardiovascular events, it’s important to be there for him/her and …

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