Clinical Significance of Psychoneuroimmunology: Prediction of Cancer Outcomes

Levy, Sandra M.; Roberts, Dawn

doi:10.4324/9781315827490-9

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“…Nevertheless, the effects observed are small. It has been hypothesized previously that psychosocial factors may not play a role in more aggressive types of cancer, 27 but this observation may have arisen from studies with smaller samples and less statistical power.…”

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Anxiety After Diagnosis Predicts Lung Cancer–Specific and Overall Survival in Patients With Stage III Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Vodermaier

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Linden

et al. 2017

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

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In a large population-based sample of patients with non-small cell lung cancer analyses demonstrated associations of anxiety with mortality, adding to the evidence that psychosocial factors might play a role in disease progression in this patient group. Because emotional distress is associated with continued smoking and lack of success of smoking cessation attempts, psychological interventions potentially could influence length of survival in lung cancer patients.

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