Osazuwa-Peters N, et al. - Given the increased risk of suicide among cancer survivors due to psychosocial issues, researchers investigated the risk of suicide across cancer sites, with a focus on survivors of head and neck cancer (HNC). They searched the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18-registry database (from 2000 to 2014) for the top 20 cancer sites in the database, including HNC. Four hundred and four suicides among 151,167 HNC survivors were reported, yielding a suicide rate of 63.4 suicides per 100,000 person-years. In contrast to this, 4493 suicides were reported among 4219,097 cancer survivors in the study sample, yielding an incidence rate of 23.6 suicides per 100,000 person-years. Findings thereby suggest that despite improvement in survival rates in cancer because of improved treatments, the risk of death by suicide remains a problem for cancer survivors, particularly those with HNC.