Predictors of suicide risk in adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer.

Abstract

11519 Background: Whilst AYA accounts for a small proportion of annual cancer cases, the complexity of this subgroup places them at a disproportionately high risk of psychological distress and poor mental health. This study aimed to identify patient and disease characteristics associated with suicide in AYA patients. Methods: A retrospective analysis of AYA (aged 15-39) between the years 1973 to 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result Research database were included. A training and test set were used to develop a model predicting suicide. The SMOTE sampling algorithm was used for the training set due to severe class imbalances. A random forest model was trained with 10 clin..