Stress, depression, the immune system, and cancer.

By Edna Maria Vissoci Reiche, S. V. Nunes, H. K. Morimoto. The Lancet Oncology, 2004

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Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival? (2008, background): “Finally, few studies have used meta-analytic techniques to quantify the extent to which psychosocial factors affect cancer”
The impact of stress on body function: A review (2017, background): “Studies have shown that the plasma concentration of norepinephrine, which increases after the induction stress, has an inverse relationship with the immune function of phagocytes and lymphocytes (Reiche et al., 2004).”
Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare. (2007, background): “Successful coping stops the initial stress reactions, independent of the positive or negative value of the stressor, while uncontrollable and, hence, persistent negative stressful stimuli lead to the well-known detrimental effects of chronic stress [84,168–170].”
Depression as a predictor of disease progression and mortality in cancer patients (2009, background): “Cancer type also varies with respect to the involvement of the immune system, making some cancer sites more susceptible to influences by psychological factors.(8) However, assessing mortality risk inherent in depression separately for different cancer types requires exceptionally large samples that ”