Stress Linked To How Aggressive A Breast Cancer Might Be

Psychological stress may be involved in the causation of breast cancer aggressiveness, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago explained at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer and Health Disparities, held in Washington D.C. The researchers added that stress may be particularly important with regards to breast cancer aggressiveness among minority populations.

Garth H. Rauscher, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology in the division of epidemiology and biostatistics at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, said:

Rauscher and team assessed how patients reported their perceptions of isolation, fear and anxiety - which they referred to as psychological stress, to see whether there might be a link to breast cancer aggressiveness.

The authors stressed that they asked patients these questions two or three months after they were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Of the 989 patients with breast cancer in the study, 397 were non-Hispanic white, 191 were Hispanic, and 411 were non-Hispanic black. They found that mental stress scores were higher for both Hispanic and black patients compared to their Caucasian counterparts.

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Written by Christian Nordqvist

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