Massachsetts: Suicide among men rose in 2007, breast cancer death rate at lowest level

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'Swampscott - Suicides among men in Massachusetts spiked by 28 percent in 2007, according to a Department of Public Health report issued Wednesday, April 8. The number of suicides among males rose to 159 in 2007 from 118 in 2006 and 153 in 2005. The increase occurred in white males between the ages of 25 and 44, according to the department, which said it would analyze the data to develop insights.

Suicides in women declined by 8 percent in 2007.

Meanwhile, death rates for cancer, heart disease, stroke and chronic respiratory diseases have declined between 13 and 31 percent between 2001 and 2007, according to the department. For women, the breast cancer death rate fell by 13 percent from 2006 to 2007, or “to their lowest level ever recorded.”'