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Suicide after hematopoietic SCT: the story of AG

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 48, pages 301–302 (2013)Cite this article

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As oncologists, we face death on a daily basis. However, taking one’s own life intentionally is an infrequent event. Experienced physicians usually remember those few occasions when their patients committed suicide.

Hematopoietic SCT (HSCT) is a highly intensive medical procedure, and is usually done with ambitious expectations on both the patient’s and doctor’s ends. Here, we present a case of suicide after a failure of HSCT.

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  1. Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

    U Rozovski, R Arad, O Ben-Tal & E Naparstek

  2. Transfusion Medicine - Blood Bank, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

    O Ben-Tal

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Rozovski, U., Arad, R., Ben-Tal, O. et al. Suicide after hematopoietic SCT: the story of AG. Bone Marrow Transplant 48, 301–302 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2012.122

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