Psychological Factors And Cancer Risk-1

Cancer And Psychological Factors

Emotional health
We have seen the  immune system importance during pregnancy and cancerous tumors development. Thus, any inhibitor of the immune response process is indeed a potential carcinogen.

 If we add the strong relationship between emotional states and the vigor of the immune response, we conclude that the negative psychological states are an important carcinogen agent.


Indeed, an emotional shock, distress, anxiety, fear, depression, nervousness,etc. ,may reduce the immune response and then generate a cancer or any other disease.

Psychosomatic diseases
In fact, it is increasingly accepted that behind every disease there is always a psychological component that has enabled its development: all diseases are psychosomatic then a greater or lesser degree.


Stress would be an obvious example of the important relationship between emotion and physical state. On one hand, this condition causes a disorder in the lipid metabolism , which leads to a cholesterol increase, regardless of the stressed individual diet. Secondly, it has been shown in some studies that stress greatly weakens the immune system.


Cardiovascular disease risk increases in a stressed person, and so does the risk of getting cancer. No wonder, then, that we are talking about the psychology importance in cancer. Regarding depression, it has been found that sleep more hours of account is a predisposing factor to developing disease, which is very harmful to the body defensive processes.


Since Galen said , in the second century , that the melancholic women were more likely to get breast cancer. In a treatise about cancer  from 1759, the London surgeon Richard Guy writes: "Women are more prone to cancer diseases than men, especially those who tend to be sedentary and melancholy, and which front a disgrace from life react with great regret.


In the words of James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist nineteenth century, " we can hardly doubt that mental depression not be an important factor that adds to the other influences that favor the development of cancer formation."

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 Source:  Dr. Josep Ribal