Cancer progress and priorities: breast cancer

SC Houghton, SE Hankinson - Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & …, 2021 - AACR
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed invasive cancer among women both
globally and within the United States and the number one cause of cancer-related deaths …

Psychosocial stress and cancer risk: a narrative review

A Mohan, I Huybrechts, N Michels - European Journal of Cancer …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background It is unclear which psychological factors (stressors, emotional correlates, and
psychophysiological markers) induce cancer risk. This currently limits the potential for …

Chronic stress promotes breast carcinoma metastasis by accumulating myeloid-derived suppressor cells through activating β-adrenergic signaling

J An, L Feng, J Ren, Y Li, G Li, C Liu, Y Yao… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous studies have found that chronic stress could promote tumor progression and this
may be related to inhibtion of immune system. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) …

Assessing the role of cortisol in cancer: a wide-ranged Mendelian randomisation study

SC Larsson, WH Lee, S Kar, S Burgess… - British Journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Background Cortisol's immunosuppressive, obesogenic, and hyperglycaemic effects
suggest that it may play a role in cancer development. However, whether cortisol increases …

The role of stress in breast cancer incidence: risk factors, interventions, and directions for the future

DJ Bowen, S Fernandez Poole, M White, R Lyn… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stress is a common belief among breast cancer patients and the public to explain variation
in breast cancer incidence. Epidemiological studies interrogating the relationship between …

Influence of psychological factors in breast and lung cancer risk–a systematic review

MA Pereira, A Araújo, M Simões, C Costa - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: In 2020, according to the Global Cancer Observatory, nearly 10 million people
died of cancer. Amongst all cancers, breast cancer had the highest number of new cases …

Non-genetic factors and breast cancer: an umbrella review of meta-analyses

A Yiallourou, K Pantavou, G Markozannes, A Pilavas… - BMC cancer, 2024 - Springer
Background Previous research has found associations between various non-genetic factors
and breast cancer (BrCa) risk. This study summarises and appraises the credibility of the …

How different stressors affect quality of life: an application of multilevel latent class analysis on a large sample of industrial employees

R Parsaei, H Roohafza, A Feizi, M Sadeghi… - … and Healthcare Policy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Quality of life (QoL) indicates individual's perception of the physical,
psychological and social aspects of health. The association between QoL and all stressful …

Glucocorticoid Receptors Orchestrate a Convergence of Host and Cellular Stress Signals in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

SH Posani, NE Gillis, CA Lange - The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that lacks
expression of the nuclear steroid receptors that bind estrogens (ER) and progestogens …

Inflammatory biomarkers and breast cancer risk: a systematic review of the evidence and future potential for intervention research

RD Kehm, JA McDonald, SE Fenton… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Measuring systemic chronic inflammatory markers in the blood may be one way of
understanding the role of inflammation in breast cancer risk, and might provide an …