Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival?

By Y. Chida, M. Hamer, J. Wardle, Andrew Steptoe. Nature Clinical Practice Oncology, 2008

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Is depression associated with increased oxidative stress? A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2015, positive): “Sufferers are at higher risk of diseases that are usually associated with increasing age such as cardiovascular disease (4), obesity (5), diabetes (6), cancer (7), cognitive impairment (8) and have a higher all-cause mortality rate (9).”
Depression and cancer mortality: a meta-analysis (2010, background): “In fact, Chida et al. (2008) found slightly stronger associations of depression with mortality in community-based studies than in clinical samples.”
Religion, Spirituality, and Health: The Research and Clinical Implications (2012, background): “Although cancer is not thought to be as sensitive as cardiovascular disorders to psychosocial stressors, psychosocial inﬂuences on cancer incidence and outcome are present (discussions over this are ongoing [481, 482]).”
Cortisol awakening response and psychosocial factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2009, neutral): “We followed meta-analytic procedures that have been described elsewhere (Chida et al., 2008a,b; Chida and Steptoe, 2008; Chida and Hamer, 2008).”
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