“…The risk of suicide in cancer patients has been reported as elevated relative to that of the general population in several countries: Italy (Crocetti et al, 1998;Miccinesi et al, 2004), Switzerland (Chatton-Reith et al, 1990;Levi et al, 1991), Denmark (Storm et al, 1992;Yousaf et al, 2005;Christensen et al, 2006;Schairer et al, 2006), Norway (Hem et al, 2004;Schairer et al, 2006), Sweden (Allebeck et al, 1989;Allebeck and Bolund, 1991;Björkenstam et al, 2005;Schairer et al, 2006;Björkholm et al, 2007), Finland (Louhivuori and Hakama, 1979;Schairer et al, 2006), Estonia (Innos et al, 2003), Australia (Dormer et al, 2008), Japan (Tanaka et al, 1999), Scotland (Camidge et al, 2007) and the United States of America (Fox et al, 1982;Llorente et al, 2005;Kendal, 2007;Miller et al, 2008;Misono et al, 2008). The majority of studies report a higher relative risk in men than in women.…”