Stress and cancer: mechanisms, significance and future directions

A Eckerling, I Ricon-Becker, L Sorski… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the prevention and treatment of obesity-driven effects in breast cancers

K Chen, J Zhang, NM Beeraka, C Tang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Obesity and associated chronic inflammation were shown to facilitate breast cancer (BC)
growth and metastasis. Leptin, adiponectin, estrogen, and several pro-inflammatory …

Exercise as medicine–evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases

BK Pedersen, B Saltin - … journal of medicine & science in sports, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides the reader with the up‐to‐date evidence‐based basis for prescribing
exercise as medicine in the treatment of 26 different diseases: psychiatric diseases …

The short-term stress response–Mother nature's mechanism for enhancing protection and performance under conditions of threat, challenge, and opportunity

FS Dhabhar - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2018 - Elsevier
Our group has proposed that in contrast to chronic stress that can have harmful effects, the
short-term (fight-or-flight) stress response (lasting for minutes to hours) is nature's …

Yoga for improving health‐related quality of life, mental health and cancer‐related symptoms in women diagnosed with breast cancer

H Cramer, R Lauche, P Klose, S Lange… - Cochrane Database …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Breast cancer is the cancer most frequently diagnosed in women worldwide.
Even though survival rates are continually increasing, breast cancer is often associated with …

The impact of psychosocial stress and stress management on immune responses in patients with cancer

MH Antoni, FS Dhabhar - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
coping, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

Cancer-related fatigue, version 2.2015

AM Berger, K Mooney, A Alvarez-Perez… - Journal of the National …, 2015 - jnccn.org
Cancer-related fatigue is defined as a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical,
emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment …

A systematic review of exercise systematic reviews in the cancer literature (2005-2017)

NL Stout, J Baima, AK Swisher, KM Winters-Stone… - PM&R, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Evidence supports the benefits of exercise for patients with cancer; however,
specific guidance for clinical decision making regarding exercise timing, frequency, duration …

Efficacy of exercise therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JM Scott, EC Zabor, E Schwitzer… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To evaluate the effects of exercise therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in
randomized controlled trials (RCTs) among patients with adult-onset cancer. Secondary …

Obesity and cancer—mechanisms underlying tumour progression and recurrence

J Park, TS Morley, M Kim, DJ Clegg… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Over the past several years, the field of cancer research has directed increased interest
towards subsets of obesity-associated tumours, which include mammary, renal …