Emotional stress
2007-12-31 15:27:25 · 11 answers · asked by take a bow 6 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Stress is one of many factors that can weaken the immune system leaving you more prone to illness and disease. So, yes in a round-a-bout way it can increase you chance of developing cancer.
2007-12-31 15:38:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. There are no studies that demonstrate a causal link, and no evidence that stress contributes to the cause of any cancer or affects the course of any cancer.
I was diagnosed with cancer at the end of a dreadful year during which, among other things, two beloved family members had died on the same day. A couple of years before I had had such stress at work that I had been forced to resign.
A number of friends and family members insist on blaming my cancer on stress. What they are overlooking is that my tumour had been growing for a several years - pre-dating the stress.
People find it easier to deal with other people's cancer if they can blame it on something specific - diet, lifestyle, stress. Blame the victim. It's easier and less frightening than accepting that cancer is random and can strike any one of us at any time
2007-12-31 23:21:44 · answer #2 · answered by lo_mcg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe so
2007-12-31 18:58:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no cancer is genetic or random it is in your genes stress cannot change your dna
2007-12-31 18:25:54 · answer #4 · answered by Nightosphere 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe it is possible for extreme stress to cause cancer as well as other illnesses. Stress causes physiological changes in the body. One such change is that stress taxes our immune systems. Will everyone who has extreme stress get cancer? No. Is everyone's cancer due to stress? No. Do I know who's cancer or which kinds of cancer may be due to stress? No.
2007-12-31 17:57:54 · answer #5 · answered by Andee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me, I have more stress now. . .I do believe that it is stifling my progress. Yet, they cannot create those cells. . .
2007-12-31 16:14:10 · answer #6 · answered by lovencare99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the stress is unresolved, yes
There is a very real connection between your emotions and your physiology. For one, when you become stressed your body secretes a hormone called cortisol. This is just one example of a physiological response to stress.
2007-12-31 15:38:45 · answer #7 · answered by momof3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO not that i read about.I have never herd of
it.stress is a emotional mental thing.
2007-12-31 15:38:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cause cancer to begin in your body by stress alone, NO. BUT if you already have bad cells mutating in your body, stress could aggrivate it causing to grow faster than maybe it would have if stress was NOT in your life.
2007-12-31 15:33:56 · answer #9 · answered by grassneedscutting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-12-31 15:29:21 · answer #10 · answered by Justo A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋