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London: Survivors of cancer diagnosed before the age of 25 may be at more than two-fold increased risk of suicide compared to their non-cancer peers, a new study has found.

The study showed that the risk of suicide is more prevalent in survivors of brain tumours, leukaemia, bone and soft tissue sarcomas and testicular cancer.However, "it is not possible to say whether there is a connection between the cancer diagnosis and suicide on an individual level, but what we see is an association at population level," said Maria Winther Gunnes, researcher and medical doctor at University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway.