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Comment
. 2022 Jun;12(6):e946.
doi: 10.1002/ctm2.946.

Suicide among patients with cancer: a call to action for researchers and clinical caregivers

Hansjörg Baurecht  1 , Michael Heinrich  2 , Peter M Kreuzer  2 , Berthold Langguth  2 , Luisa Hofmann  2 , Michael F Leitzmann  1 , Corinna Seliger  3
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Suicide among patients with cancer: a call to action for researchers and clinical caregivers

Hansjörg Baurecht et al. Clin Transl Med. 2022 Jun.
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FIGURE 1
Suicide risk factors by grade of standard mortality ratio (SMR) among patients with cancer. Low risk was defined as SMR=1.50; intermediate risk as SMR 1.51–1.99; high risk SMR=2.00
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