Link Between Personality and Cancer Ruled Out
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MONDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- There's no link between cancer and two specific personality traits, extroversion and neuroticism, says a study in the March 1 issue of Cancer.
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NEW YORK  - The results of a new study provide no evidence to support the notion that patients with cancer can influence the course or outcome of their cancer by making changes to improve their emotional well-being or, in particular, that psychotherapy can help them live longer.
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Breast cancer survivors who ate more fruits and vegetables were not more likely to avoid a cancer recurrence
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Researchers from Iceland have found that close relatives of cancer patients have a much higher risk of developing cancer themselves and the higher risk extends beyond the immediate family.
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The time of year in which a person is born may somehow sway the risk of developing brain cancer in adulthood, new research suggests.
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People who are depressed about their cancer are no more likely to die than people who keep a positive outlook, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Among individuals who develop lung cancer, there appear to be differences between smokers and nonsmokers in survival rates and in individuals patient characteristics, researchers report. They say the findings indicate that lung cancer in nonsmokers is a specific disease, which has implications for research and clinical trials.
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Does stress speed up the onset of skin cancer? The answer, in mice anyway, appears to be yes. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say that chronic stress may speed up the process in those at high risk for the disease.
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NEW YORK  - Women who feel chronically stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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Over half of those concerned about a strong family history of cancer are right to be, a study suggests.
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According to a new study that suggests the family-associated increased risk of some cancers may extend well beyond the immediate family.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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NEW YORK  - Confirming previous research,  the results of a population-based Danish study show that a high  birth weight is associated with an increased risk of breast  cancer later in life.
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A new genetic test could one day spare many women diagnosed with breast cancer from the rigors of chemotherapy, a new study says. But at least one cancer expert says more
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NEW YORK  - A variation in a gene that  regulates inflammatory activity is associated with  susceptibility to prostate cancer, Swedish researchers have  shown.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes. With an increasing number of biological clues available, doctors hope they will be able to customize more patients' treatments based on their genetic profiles.
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Data on nearly a million families suggest that mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes -- which are strongly linked to some breast cancers -- may also confer a slight