Suicide, accidents linked to bone marrow transplant

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Suicide, accidents linked to bone marrow transplant

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have had a bone marrow transplant may be at increased risk for suicides and accidental deaths, according to a new study suggesting these patients may need extra attention to the mental and physical after-effects of their battles with disease. In a group of almost 300,000 European bone marrow transplant recipients, researchers found that patients killed themselves at twice the rates seen in the general European population, and slightly more died in accidents. Dr. ...

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