Psychosocial Stress, Aging and Cancer

Baltrusch, Hans-Joachim F.; Seidel, Jochen; Stangel, W; Waltz, Millard

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb35261.x

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“…There is a life review of the successes and failures and a demand to adjust to new roles [8]. While many people may welcome retirement, for others retirement is a stressor that challenges their self-esteem related to the absence of work-related responsibilities and lack of a defined role.…”

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confidence: 99%

The influence of developmental life stage on quality of life in survivors of prostate cancer and their partners

et al. 2008

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Introduction-Although prostate cancer is prevalent, little information is available on how it affects couples' quality of life (QOL) according to their age cohort. The purpose of this study was to examine how quality of life, self-efficacy and appraisal of the illness experience vary among men with prostate cancer and their partners according to age cohort: middle age (50-64); young-old (65-74); and oldold (75-84). Using an Adult Developmental and Family Stress framework, this study focuses on how normative (developmental stage) and non-normative stressors (prostate cancer) may affect a couple's ability to adapt.

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Section: Review Of Literature Developmental Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of developmental life stage on quality of life in survivors of prostate cancer and their partners

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“…by knowledge of cancer, whereas emo tional state factors should be more affected' (p. 236). A similar statement has been made by Baltrusch et al [29] that 'there is evidence from prospective and retrospective investiga tions that there is little substance to the argu ment that knowing one has cancer (or has knowledge without conscious awareness) re sults in psychological and physiological reac tions that compromise the validity of retro spective findings' (p. 7). Our own results seem to support this suggestion too.…”

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confidence: 64%

An Investigation of Hostile and Alexithymic Characteristics in Breast Cancer Patients

Anagnostopoulos¹,

Vaslamatzis

Markidis

et al. 1993

Psychother Psychosom

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Two measures of personality characteristics, the Personality Deviance Scale and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, were administered to a total sample of 448 women and a subsample of 100 women, respectively, attending two breast-screening centers in Athens. The relative risk of breast cancer between women with low denigratory attitudes towards others and women with high scores in this scale was 2.31. Statistically significant relations were not noted between the mean scores of alexithymia factors and breast cancer diagnosis. Our findings point to the conclusion that breast cancer patients can be distinguished from healthy women on the basis of their cognitive activity, characterized by rare denigratory thoughts.

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“…These results have led to the theorization of a cancer-prone behavior pattern (type C); according to this theory, an overcooperative, appeasing, unassertive, harmonizing patient who is alexithymic toward negative emotions, compliant with external authority, and anxious and defensive toward stress has more probability to develop cancer than someone without these traits ( 1 00,lO 1). Work on this promising construct is in progress (102).…”

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Human psychoneuroimmunology today

Biondi

Kotzalidis

1990

Clinical Laboratory Analysis

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Studies in human psychoneuroimmunology began around 1919, but a systematic approach wasn't used until the work of Solomon in the 1960s. Recently, the new specialty has achieved relative independence due to considerable data acquisition. Stress research has revealed relationships between neuroendocrine and immune changes. In parallel, increasing evidence of immunological alterations in psychiatric diseases has expanded the field; presently, immunological correlates of psychosomatic diseases and personality are sought. On the other hand, while immunological disease has been psychologically assessed for many years, a clear-cut link between psyche and immunological changes has yet to be shown. This fact, along with the therapeutic implications of advancing knowledge, will influence strongly the future trends of psychoneuroimmunology. Concepts emerging from the study of this field will be of heuristic value to both psychiatry and immunology and will help define new and expanded limits for both disciplines.

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Psychosocial Stress, Aging and Cancer

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

The influence of developmental life stage on quality of life in survivors of prostate cancer and their partners

The influence of developmental life stage on quality of life in survivors of prostate cancer and their partners

An Investigation of Hostile and Alexithymic Characteristics in Breast Cancer Patients

Human psychoneuroimmunology today

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