Stress and Cancer Suggested Readings

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Bacon C., Remeker R., Ertler, M. A psychosomatic survey of cancer of the breast. Psychosom Med 1952;14:453-460

Bammer, K.H. and Newberry, BH Stress and Cancer C. J. Hogrefe Inc. Toronto., 1981

Bartrop RW, Lazarus L, Luckhurst E, Kiloh LG, Penny R: Depressed lymphocyte function after bereavement. Lancet 1977;i:834 836.

Blumberg EM, West PM, Ellis FW: A possible relationship between psychological factors and human cancer. Psychosom Med 1954;16:277 286.

Brown F: The relationship between cancer and personality. Ann NY Acad Sci 125:865 873, 1966.

Burnet FM. Immunological surveillance in neoplasia. Transplant Rev 1971; 7: 3-25.

Cannon WJ: The emergency function of the adrenal medulla in pain and the major emotions. Am J Physiol 1914; 33:356 372.

Cohen S, Tyrrell D, Smith AP. Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. NEJM 1991; 325(9):606-611.

Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Skoner DP, Rabin BS, Gwaltney JM. Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold. JAMA 1997; 227(24):1940-1944

Cohen S, Herbert TB. Health psychology: psychologic factors and physical disease from the perspective of human psychoneuroimmunology. Annu Rev Psychol 1996; 47: 113-42.

Cooper, CL ed. Psychosocial Stress and Cancer, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1984

Day SB ed. Cancer, Stress and Death, Plenum Publishing, New York, 1986

Evans E: A Psychological Study of Cancer. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1926.

Everson, SA et al. Hopelessness and Risk of Mortality and Incidence of Myocardial Infraction and Cancer. Psychosom Med 1996; 58:113

Eysenck HJ, Grossarth-Maticek R. Creative Novation Behavior Therapy as a Prophylactic Treatment for Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease: Part II – Effects of Treatment. Behavior Research and Therapy 1991; 29(1):17-31.

Eysenck HJ. Cancer, Personality and Stress: Prediction and Prevention. Advances in Behavior Research and Therapy 1994; 16:167-215.

Fawzy FI, Fawzy NW, Hyun CS, Elashoff R, Guthrie D, Fahey JL, et al. Malignant melanoma. Effects of an early structured psychiatric intervention, coping, and affective state on recurrence and survival 6 year later. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1993; 50: 681-9.

Greene WA: The psychosocial setting of the development of leukemia and lymphoma. Ann NY Acad Sci 1962;125:794 802.

Greer S and Morris T: Psychological attributes of women who develop breast cancer: A controlled study. J Psychosom Res 1975;19:147 153.

Grossarth-Maticek R. Eysenck HJ, Creative Novation Behaviour Therapy as a Prophylactic Treatment for Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease: Part I – Description of Treatment.” Behaviour Research and Therapy 1991; 29(1):1-16.

Grossarth-Maticek R, Bastiaans J, Kanazir D. Psychosocial Factors as Strong Predictors of Mortality from Cancer, Ischaemic Heart Disease and Stroke: The Yugoslav Prospective study. J Psychosom Res 1985; 29(2):167- 176.

Grossarth-Maticek R, Eysenck HJ. Prediction of Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease as a Function of Method of Questionaire Administration. Psychological Reports 1993; 73:943-959.

Grossarth-Maticek R., Eysenck HJ. (1995) Self-regulation and mortality from cancer, coronary heart disease, and other causes: A prospective study. Personality and Individual Differences 1995; 19(6):781-795.

Hagnell O: The premorbid personality of persons who develop cancer in the total population investigated in 1947 and 1957. Ann NY Acad Sci 125:846 855, 1966.

Ikemi Y: Premorbid psychological factors as related to cancer incidence. J Behavior Med 1978;1:45.

Jenkins CD: Social environment and cancer mortality in men. N Engl J Med 1983;308:395 398.

Kissen DM and LeShan LL (eds.) Psychosomatic Aspects of Neoplastic Disease, Pitman (London) and Lippincott (Philadelphia), 1964.

Kowal SJ: Emotions as a cause of cancer: 18th and 19th century contributions. Psychoanal Rev 42:217, 1955.

LeShan L and Worthington RE: Some recurrent life history patterns observed in patients with malignant disease. J Nerv Ment Dis 124:460 465, 1956.

Lynch SA, Houghton AN. Cancer immunology. Curr Opin Oncol 1993; 5: 145-50.

Rabin BS, Cohen S, Ganguli R, Lysle DT, Cunnick JE. Bidirectional interaction between the central nervous system and immune system. Crit Rev Immunol 1989; 9: 279-312.

Rosch PJ: The Growth and Development of the Stress Concept and its Significance in Clinical Medicine, in Gardiner-Hill H, ed. Modern Trends in Endocrinology, New York, Paul B. Hoeber; London, Butterworths, 1958, pp 278 297.

Rosch PJ: Stress and Cancer: A Disease of Adaptation? in Tache J, Selye H, Day SB (eds.) Stress and Cancer. New York, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1979, pp 187 212.

Rosch PJ: Lifestyle and cancer. NY State Med J 1980;80:2034, 2038.

Rosch, P.J. Stress and Cancer, in Cooper, CL ed. Psychosocial Stress and Cancer, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1984 pp. 3-21

Rosch PJ: Some Thoughts on the Endemiology of Cancer, in Day SB ed. Cancer, Stress and Death, Plenum Publishing, New York, 1986 pp. 293-303

Rosenberg SA. Karnofsky Memorial Lecture: the immunotherapy and gene therapy of cancer. J Clin Oncol 1992; 10:180-99.

Schleifer SJ, Keller SE, Camerino M, Thornton JC, Stein M: Suppression of lymphocyte stimulation following bereavement. JAMA 1983; 250:374 377.

Schmale AH and Iker HD: Hoplessness as a predictor of cervical cancer. Soc Sci Med 1971;5:95 100.

Schmale AH and Iker HD: The effect of hopelessness and the development of cancer. Psychosom Med 28:714 721, 1966.

Selye H: The General Adaptation Symdrome and the Diseases of Adaptation. J Clin Endocrinol 1946;6:117 120.

Selye H and Rosch PJ: The Renaissance in Endocrinology, in Medicine and Science. New York, International University Press, 1954, pp 30 49.

Selye H and Rosch, PJ: Integration of Endocrinology, in American Medical Association Textbook of Glandular Physiology and Therapy. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1954, pp 1 100.

Spiegel D, Bloom JR, Kraemer HC, Gottheil E. Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer. Lancet 1989; 2: 888-91.

Stefansson V: Cancer: Disease of Civilization?. New York, Hill and Wang, 1960

Stoll, BA ed. Mind and Cancer Prognosis John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1979

Tache J, Selye H, Day SB (eds.) Stress and Cancer. New York, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1979

Walshe WA: The Nature and Treatment of Cancer. London, Taylor and Walton, 1846.

Yamasaki H. Non-genotoxic mechanisms of carcinogenesis: studies of cell transformation and gap junctional intercellular communication. 1995: Toxicology Letters. 77: 55-61.