Risk of suicide and heart attacks goes up when men are told they have prostate cancer

December 29, 2009 by Brendan Joseph
Filed under Health

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(NaturalNews) Imagine you are a man who has just been told you have a disease that might kill you — prostate cancer. And the treatment may involve surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and/or hormones that could rob you of your virility, wreck your sex life and even interfere with your ability to urinate. Sound depressing and even terrifying? To some men, this disturbing news may actually be a lot more dangerous than their prostate cancer. A new study just published in PLoS Medicine has found that men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and suicide — with the youngest men being the most vulnerable. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and Harvard University used the Swedish Cancer Register to identify 168,584 men 30 years old or older who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1961 and 2004. The research team then turned to Sweden’s Causes of Death Register and Inpatient Register to compile information on how many of these men suffered from subsequent fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular events and suicides. The results showed that prior to 1987, men…

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Risk of suicide and heart attacks goes up when men are told they have prostate cancer

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