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 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 …

Advances in the understanding of psychoneuroimmunology in the past decade have
emphasized the notion that stress and cancer are interlinked closely. Durable chronic stress …

Nerves are emerging regulators of cancer progression. Cancer cells induce the outgrowth of
nerves in the tumor microenvironment through the release of neurotrophic factors, and in …

Stress is a state of disrupted homeostasis, triggered by intrinsic or extrinsic factors, the
stressors, which are counteracted by various physiological and behavioural adaptive …

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has had wide‐ranging
health effects and increased isolation. Older with cancer patients might be especially …

Cancer health disparities remain stubbornly entrenched in the US health care system. The
Affordable Care Act was legislation to target these disparities in health outcomes. Expanded …

We live in a society where individuals and communities are marginalized because of their
race or ethnicity. This structural inequity extracts enormous health and societal costs …

The relationship between psychosocial factors and cancer has intrigued people for
centuries. In the last several decades there has been an expansion of mechanistic research …

Comorbid chronic diseases affect cancer patients with an increasing frequency as
populations get older. They negatively and disproportionately impact underserved …