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Psychoneuroimmunology and cancer: historical perspectives and current research
A Fife1, P J Beasley, D L Fertig
1Division of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Advances in Neuroimmunology
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The belief that cancer might be related to temperament or distress has been emphasized throughout the history of medicine. The field of psychoneuroimmunology has its origins in psychosomatic medicine, and has evolved to the investigations of complex interactions between the psyche and the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. Such interactions may have implications in both cancer risk and survival.