Loneliness Makes Cancer ‘More Likely and Deadly’
BBC – Fresh evidence adds weight to suggestions that loneliness makes cancer both more likely and deadly. Work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows social isolation tips the odds in favour of aggressive cancer growth. Rodents kept alone developed more tumours – and tumours of a more deadly type – than rats living as a group. Read article
Ed. – Yes, to the statement the article title makes, and so does every other significant stressor. Do we really need a study for each one? Surely money could be better spent than in confirming what common-sense tells us.
Tags: disease & medicine
