Relationships Between Serum Cortisol, RAGE-Associated s100A8/A9 Levels, and Self-Reported Cancer-Related Distress in

Chloe J Taub1, Alain Diaz, Bonnie B Blomberg

  • 1From the Department of Medical Social Science (Taub), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Diaz, Blomberg), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jutagir), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Fisher), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior (Gudenkauf), Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida; Department of Oncology and Medicine (Lippman), Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center; Oncology Academic Department (Hudson), Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; Department of Psychology (Antoni), University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

Psychosomatic Medicine
|August 18, 2022
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