Mental health-related, existential, and biological factors are associated with the desire to hasten death in Mexican cancer patients undergoing palliative care: A single-center study

• Oscar Rodríguez-Mayoral,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mental Health Department, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5441-1919

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• Edith Monreal-Carrillo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Palliative Care Service, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Irazú Contreras-Yáñez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Immunology and Rheumatology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMyN SZ), Mexico City, Mexico

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• Silvia Allende-Pérez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Palliative Care Service, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Evandro Agazzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inderdisciplinary bioethics center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Virginia Pascual-Ramos

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: virtichu@gmail.com

  Affiliation Immunology and Rheumatology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMyN SZ), Mexico City, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-498X

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