Main findings
Using data from the SEER database, we first found that a relative risk
of 1.9 for suicide and 1.5 for accidental death among women with ovarian
cancers compared with the general US women population. Of note, we found
that patients with Type II epithelial ovarian cancer faced an increased
risk of both suicide and accidental deaths in comparison with the
general population, and the patients with Type I epithelial ovarian
cancer also had a greater risk of accidental deaths. Given that suicide
is potentially preventable, this analysis is important as it identifies
the high-risk groups of death from suicide and accidental injury among
ovarian cancer patients, providing a preliminary heuristic framework for
clinicians to develop suicide risk-identification and prevention
strategies to reduce the risk of suicide among women with ovarian
cancer.