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Stress may raise breast cancer risk in young women.
By Anne Harding.
For NEW YORK (Reuters Health).
Young women who experience more than one stressful life event are at greater risk of developing breast cancer, but a general feeling of happiness and optimism may help guard against the disease, Israeli researchers report.
The findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that optimism is all you need to prevent [...]
Persistent depression seen with taxane-based chemo.
Emotional recovery is delayed in patients with breast cancer who receive “taxane-based” chemotherapy, researchers from Ohio State University in Columbus report in the journal Cancer.
Dr. Lisa M. Thornton and colleagues studied 35 women who received taxane as part of chemotherapy, comparing them to 83 matched patients receiving chemotherapy without taxane.
“As expected, patients in the taxane [...]
Depression prompts thoughts of death in cancer patients.
Cancer patients are three times more likely to think they would be “better off dead” or to contemplate suicide than the rest of the population - a Cancer Research UK study reports online today.
Patients were most likely to have these thoughts if they had substantial pain and particularly if they had serious emotional distress.
The study [...]
Depression Hastens Decline In Cancer Patients.
Depression causes patients with advanced cancer to die sooner than they should, say scientists at the University of Liverpool.
In a six-month study patients who were found to be depressed had a 7% increased chance of dying and this percentage increased depending on the severity of the depression. Depression is common in patients with advanced cancer [...]
