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Psychological stress, adverse life events and breast cancer incidence: a cohort investigation in 106,000 women in the United Kingdom.
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Background
Women diagnosed with breast cancer frequently attribute their cancer to psychological stress, but scientific evidence is inconclusive. We investigated whether experienced frequency of stress and adverse life events affect subsequent breast cancer risk.
Methods
Breast cancer incidence was analysed with respect to stress variables collected at enrolment in a prospective cohort study of 106,000 women in the United Kingdom, with 178...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1186/s13058-016-0733-1
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central.
- Journal:
- Breast Cancer Research More from this journal
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 72
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-17
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1465-542X
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1465-5411
- Pmid:
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27418063
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English
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pubs:636333
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636333
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- Schoemaker etal
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
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