Effects on DNA Damage and/or Repair Processes as Biological Mechanisms Linking Psychological Stress to Cancer Risk

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Considerable research effort in the past several decades has focused on the impact of psychological stress, and stress hormones, on cancer progression . Numerous studies have reported that stress hormone treatment or in vivo stress exposure can enhance the growth of tumor cell lines in vitro , as well as tumors in animal models, and have begun to explore molecular mechanisms. Comparatively little research has...

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