Stress is not linked to breast cancer relapse

Women with breast cancer need not fear that stressful experiences in life will bring about the return of their disease. Graham and colleagues (p 1420) found no evidence that women who have a severely stressful life experience in the year before being diagnosed with breast cancer, or in the five years afterwards, were at any increased risk of developing a recurrence of their disease. These data do not confirm an earlier finding from a case-control study, but different methods may explain the contradictory results.


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Stressful life experiences and risk of relapse of breast cancer: observational cohort study
Jill Graham, Amanda Ramirez, Sharon Love, Michael Richards, and Caroline Burgess
BMJ 2002 324: 1420. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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