Ma W, Wu W, Fu R, et al. - Researchers examined survivors of primary solid tumor across 19 cancer sites to determine the suicide risk among these patients; they considered risk coincident patterns based on area-based socioeconomic status indicators in this study. They conducted a retrospective search of the SEER database. Patients with a primary solid tumor were identified at be higher suicide risk if they were older, male, white, unmarried, had no insurance, poorly differentiated, distant metastasis, and did not undergo active treatment (especially surgery). Patients living in areas with economic and education disadvantage, high levels of immigration and crowding, and high levels of residential instability were noted to be at higher suicide risk. The highest risk of suicide was observed in correlation with concomitant presence of high economic and education disadvantage, high immigration and crowding levels, and low residential instability. Clinicians should pay more attention to patients with these traits in order to mitigate risk of suicide.