Friday, May 22, 2009

Stress worsens cancer

Stress can lower the body’s ability to do the immune system dan DNA cannot repair the abnormal cells. People who are in acute stress have been shown to have a reduction in immune function.

Stress hormones attach directly to tumour cells and stimulate new blood vessel growth and other factors that lead to faster and more aggressive tumours, the researchers said

Dr Anil Sood of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre and colleagues noticed that ovarian cancer patients who reported high levels of stress in their lives also had higher levels of a protein called VEGF, which stimulates blood vessel growth in tumours. Patients who had more social support in their lives had lower levels of VEGF.

So the team infected mice with ovarian cancer and then stressed some by confining them alone in a small space for two or six hours. Mice stressed for six hours had 3.6 times as many tumours. And in half the stressed mice the tumours had already spread to the liver or spleen.

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