I learned of a new study implicating stress in reduced breast cancer survival by Twitter. Three days ago, a line in my feed alerted me that CNN’s health blog, “Paging Dr. Gupta,” broke embargo on the soon-to-be-published paper in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. It seems the story – that women who undergo a stress relief program live longer after breast cancer recurrence – couldn’t wait.
“Less stress helps breast cancer patients” is the title of the rushed post. What the researchers, based at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, report is that psychological intervention helps to increase the quality of life and survival among women with recurrent breast cancer.
The intervention at issue is this: weekly, small-group meetings of BC patients for 4 months after their initial surgery and diagnosis. Led by clinical psychologists, the women met 18 times and discussed strategies to reduce stress, improve mood, strengthen social networks, eat better, exercise
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