The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

The circadian rhythm plays a fundamental role in regulating biological functions, including
sleep–wake preference, body temperature, hormonal secretion, food intake, and cognitive …

The contribution of nerves to the pathogenesis of malignancies has emerged as an
important component of the tumour microenvironment. Recent studies have shown that …

After over 70 years of research on the association between stressful life events and health, it
is generally accepted that we have a good understanding of the role of stressors in disease …

Background Adverse psychosocial exposures in early life, namely experiences such as child
maltreatment, caregiver stress or depression, and domestic or community violence, have …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tip** Point …

Our group has proposed that in contrast to chronic stress that can have harmful effects, the
short-term (fight-or-flight) stress response (lasting for minutes to hours) is nature's …

The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
co**, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

Although the concept of stress has earned a bad reputation, it is important to recognize that
the adaptive purpose of a physiological stress response is to promote survival during fight or …

The recently uncovered key role of the peripheral and central nervous systems in controlling
tumorigenesis and metastasis has opened a new area of research to identify innovative …