Breakthrough's Comment On Research Suggesting Positive Or Negative Experiences Can Affect Breast Cancer Risk
Main Category: Breast CancerArticle Date: 28 Aug 2008 - 3:00 PDT
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Research published in BMC Cancer suggests that positive thinking can reduce the risk of breast cancer, while negative experiences may increase risk.
Dr Sarah Cant, Policy Manager at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, says:
"There is no clear evidence that positive or negative experiences can affect breast cancer risk. Emotional stress is highly subjective and is difficult to measure accurately.
"Women in this study were interviewed after breast cancer was diagnosed when they may be more likely to recall feeling depression and anxiety. The researchers also didn't account for other factors known to affect breast cancer risk such as family history or weight.
"Breast cancer is a complex disease and there is unlikely to be one single cause."
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Thank You For Saying That!
posted by Gail Perry on 28 Aug 2008 at 10:22 amAs it happens, I have maintained a very positive attitude since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. However, I also had a very positive attitude before it developed.
If I did NOT feel entirely positive, I would still be entitld to my feelings, and I wouldn't need a guilt trip placed on me on top of it all. The development of cancer is a complex cellular process and much of it is either not understood or not well understood yet. To jump to such sweeping conclusions based on women at a very stressful point in their lives is, in my opinion, irresponsible research.
And, I think this kind of thinking leads to something I ran into with my first oncologist: she was completely unwilling to tell me the whole truth. She also tried to prevent me from getting a second opinion by refusing to delay the start of chemotherapy by two weeks. Well, I went out of town, I got a second opinion, and a WHOLE lot more information than I got from my own oncologist.
Needless to say when I got back to town I changed oncologists.
Stop thinking so much about how we're "feeling." We're all grown up and we can take the truth, and knowing the truth instead of being fed platitudes is ... CALMING.
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