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Women Blame Stress For Their Breast Cancer, Attribute Remission To Positive Attitude.
2001 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ask women what caused their breast cancer, and the most common answer will be stress: an unfounded belief that can affect how these women approach their treatment and survival.
In a study of nearly 400 breast cancer survivors who had been disease-free for an average of nine years, 42% cited stress as one of the main causes of their breast cancer.
This was many more than the 27% of the women who felt genetics was involved, the 26% who attributed a role to environmental factors, 24% who blamed hormones, and 16% who thought diet was a contributing factor. The scientific evidence supporting these factors as potential causes of breast cancer is far stronger than that for stress.
Sixty percent of the women also felt that a positive attitude helped them keep the breast cancer from returning, followed by diet (50%), healthy lifestyle (40%), exercise (40%), stress reduction (28%), prayer (26%), complementary therapies (11%), luck (4%), and tamoxifen (4%).
The conviction that stress caused cancer or that a positive attitude has kept their breast cancer from recurring may give women a sense of control over the disease, say Donna E. Stewart, MD, and her associates at University Health Network and the University of Toronto. This belief can be beneficial when it helps women switch to a low-fat diet or exercise more, but can backfire in a feeling of "personal failure" if the disease returns. Their study was published in the March 2001 issue of Psycho-Oncology.
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