Research

Depressive symptoms predict head and neck cancer survival:

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Depressive symptoms were significantly related to treatment response. First study to test impact of depression on head and neck tumor response to treatment.

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Optimistic, realistic, and pessimistic illness perceptions; survival among cancer survivors:

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Optimistic IPs are associated with better QOL and survival, even if  may appear unrealistic to cancer survivors' prognosis.

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Inflammatory Biomarkers & Emotional Approach Coping in Men with Prostate Cancer:

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Articles suggests stress hormones may play an important role in the progression of malignancy and thus accelerate the metastasis formation in cancer patients.

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Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Breast Cancer Survivorship:

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Emotional distress in cancer patients is an important outcome; however, emotional experience does not begin and end with emotion generation. Attempts to regulate emotions may lessen their potentially negative effects on physical and psychological well-being.

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Chronic & episodic stress predict physical symptom bother following breast cancer diagnosis:

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This study examined relationships between Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management, Disease Free Survival, and the potential bio-behavioral pathway linking these variables in breast cancer patients.

Associations of social networks with cancer mortality:

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Study shows lower mortality in individuals with higher levels of perceived social support, larger social networks.

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A conceptual model of social networks and mechanisms of cancer mortality:

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Study discusses howsocial networks influence cancer outcomes through several downstream factors including behavioral treatment and physiological factors.

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Getting by With a Little Help From Our Friends:

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This review summarizes the clinical and basic science literature supporting social influences on breast cancer, and provides a conceptual physiological framework for these effects.

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Social Integration, Marital Status, & Ovarian Cancer Risk:20-Year Prospective Cohort Study:

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Results suggest higher OvCA risk among socially isolated and widowed women, particularly when such psychosocial stressors were experienced a decade before diagnosis or were sustained over time.

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Stress and its molecular consequences in cancer progression:

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This article discusses biological mechanisms by which emotional/stress management can alter related cancer outcome.

A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral stress management in breast cancer:

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Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management was shown to impact survival in metastatic breast cancer.

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Relationships among stress, emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence, and cytokines:

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Multiple associations between stress and emotional intelligence (EI), between EI and intelligence quotient (IQ), between cytokines and stress, and between cytokines and IQ. 

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Stress Management, Leukocyte Transcriptional Changes and Breast Cancer Recurrence:

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Relationships between Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management, Disease Free Survival, and the potential bio-behavioral pathway linking these variables in breast cancer patients.

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Impact of Psychosocial Stress and Stress Management on Immune Responses in Cancer Patients:

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Emotional distress in cancer patients is an important outcome; however, emotional experience does not begin and end with emotion generation. Attempts to regulate emotions may lessen their potentially negative effects on physical and psychological well-being.

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Chronic and episodic stress predict physical symptom bother following breast cancer diagnosis:

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This study examined relationships between Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management, Disease Free Survival, and the potential bio-behavioral pathway linking these variables in breast cancer patients.

Cancer Prevention and Treatment by Wholistic Nutrition:

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Cancer development is primarily a nutrition-responsive disease rather than a genetic disease, with the understanding that nutrition is a comprehensive, wholistic biological effect that reflects the natural contents of nutrients and related substances in whole, intact food.

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Pushing the Limits of Cancer Therapy: The Nutrient Game:

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Mounting evidence has highlighted that the fine-tuning of nutrients may selectively sensitize cancer cells to conventional cancer therapies, while simultaneously protecting normal cells from their side effects.

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Dietary patterns & colorectal cancer: results from a Canadian population-based study:

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Meat-diet/Sugary-diet patterns increased & Plant-based diet pattern decreased the risk of colorectal cancer.

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Diet components can suppress inflammation and reduce cancer risk:

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Epidemiology studies indicate that diet or specific dietary components can reduce the risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. 

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Association between a pro plant-based dietary score and cancer risk in the prospective NutriNet-santé cohort:

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Diverse plant products (e.g. fruits, vegetables, legumes) are associated with decreased cancer risk at several locations while red and processed meat were found to increase cancer risk.

Meta-analysis of Association of Physical Activity & Breast Cancer Mortality:

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Patients who increased physical activity post diagnosis had a favorable association with all-cause mortality.

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Physical activity and survival in breast cancer:

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Participation in exercise after breast cancer may reduce mortality by 44%.

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Effects of Physical Activity on Cancer Survival: A Systematic Review:

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Studies found that individuals participating in higher levels of physical activity had a reduced risk of cancer-related mortality.

It Made Me the Person I am Today....

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Reflections of Cancer Survivors and Mindset

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Random controlled trial of Mindfulness-based cancer recovery

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Relationship of Mindfulness, including Optimism, and Quality of Life.