Is it possible to get cancer from stress?And what type of stress is most likely to get u cancer? And if its possible explain the very details of how a cancer forms from stress. Just wondering since im stressing out somtimes about stupid stuff.
Answer by lo_mcg
No, there is no evidence that stress causes cancer or affects the progress of cancer in any way.
When people are diagnosed with cancer they're very often desperate to find a reason or explanation. They remember the events that seem linked - divorce, breavement, job loss etc. But they forget all the people who have been through the same stress and haven't developed cancer, and the people who have experienced no stress or trauma who haven't developed cancer.
I was diagnosed with cancer at the end of a dreadful year during which, among other things, two beloved family members had died on the same day. A couple of years before I had had such stress at work that I had been forced to resign following treatment for depression.
A number of friends and family members insist on blaming my cancer on stress. What they are overlooking is that my tumour had been growing for a several years - pre-dating the stress.
People find it easier to deal with other people's cancer if they can blame it on something specific - diet, lifestyle, stress. Blame the victim. It's easier and less frightening than accepting that cancer is random and can strike any one of us at any time.
This is an interesting Dutch study of 9700 women; it found that the development of breast cancer had no link with personality, and no link with anxiety, anger, depression, or optimism.
This research is a prospective study, which means that at the start of the study nobody had breast cancer; the women were followed for 13 years. Many studies of stress etc are retrospective - asking people after they have had cancer if they were stressed, depressed etc, which of course is far less reliable.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=86769
Bereavement is one of the most stressful events in life, and the loss of a child is stress almost beyond endurance. A study in Isreal looked for an increase in cancer among parents who had lost a child; no such increase in cancer was found.
Cancer happens when normal cells change so that they grow in an uncontrolled way; this uncontrolled growth causes a tumour to form. It's difficult to see how stress could trigger this process.
Stress is an easy and popular explanation for cancer, but there's no scientific evidence that demonstrate a causal link, and no evidence that stress contributes to the cause of any cancer or affects the course of any cancer.
Answer by jodie w
NO
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