Breast Cancer
Stressful life events rarely associated with breast cancer risk
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 15th, 2004
"Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women in Western societies. Studies examining the relationship between stressful life events and breast cancer risk have produced conflicting results," scientists in the Netherlands report.
"The purpose of this meta-analysis was to identify studies on this relationship, between 1966 and December 2002, to summarize and quantify the association and to explain the inconsistency in previous results," wrote S.F.A. Duijts and colleagues, Maastricht University, Department of Epidemiology.
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