Advances in the understanding of psychoneuroimmunology in the past decade have
emphasized the notion that stress and cancer are interlinked closely. Durable chronic stress …

Breast cancer diagnosis, surgery, adjuvant therapies and survivorship can all be extremely
stressful. In women, concerns about body image are common as a result of the disease and …

Scholarly and comprehensive yet accessible, this state-of-the-science work is widely
regarded as the definitive graduate-level psychology of religion text. The authors synthesize …

Chronic stress is associated with increased risk of metastasis and poor survival in cancer
patients, yet the reasons are unclear. We show that chronic stress increases lung metastasis …

Chronic stress is an emotional experience that occurs when people encounter something
they cannot adapt to. Repeated chronic stress increases the risk of a variety of diseases …

Chronic stress results in disturbances of body hormones through the neuroendocrine
system. Cancer patients often experience recurrent anxiety and restlessness during disease …

Cancer patients are more likely to develop depressive symptoms and show a poor
prognosis compared to the normal healthy individuals. Cancer occurrence and the …

It is well known that psychological stress could affect the immune system and then regulate
the disease process. Previous studies mostly focused on the effects of chronic stress on …

Chronic stress is common among cancer patients due to the psychological, operative, or
pharmaceutical stressors at the time of diagnosis or during the treatment of cancers. The …

According to the 2020 data released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer,
breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the world's most newly diagnosed first-time …