Table 3 Methodology of suicide in cancer patient cohort by time since cancer diagnosis

From: Hospital admissions and deaths relating to deliberate self-harm and accidents within 5 years of a cancer diagnosis: a national study in Scotland, UK

  

Time to death from cancer diagnosis

Type of suicide

 

<1 year

1–2 years

3–5 years

Total

Analgesics, antipyrectics and anti-rheumatics

n

4

5

8

17

 

%

24%

29%

47%

100%

Tranquillizers and other psychotropics

n

4

5

3

12

 

%

33%

42%

25%

100%

Other solids or liquids

n

5

1

7

13

 

%

38%

8%

54%

100%

Gases

n

6

3

8

17

 

%

35%

18%

47%

100%

Hanging

n

12

2

8

22

 

%

55%

9%

36%

100%

Drowning

n

6

5

8

19

 

%

32%

26%

42%

100%

Firearms

n

4

1

2

7

 

%

57%

14%

29%

100%

Cutting

n

2

2

2

6

 

%

33%

33%

33%

100%

Jumping

n

8

3

2

13

 

%

62%

23%

15%

100%

Other/unspecified

n

1

0

4

5

 

%

20%

0%

80%

100%

Total

n

52

27

52

131

 

%

40%

21%

40%

100%

  1. Percentages rounded to nearest whole number.