Personality Factors and Breast Cancer Development: a Prospective Longitudinal Study

Open Access

16 October 1996

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Vol. 88 (20) , 1478-1482
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/88.20.1478

Abstract

Background: It has been estimated that approximately 25% of all breast cancers in women can be explained by currently recognized somatic (i.e., hereditary and physiologic) risk factors. It has also been hypothesized that psychological factors may play a role in the development of breast cancer.

Keywords

SOMATIC
BREAST CANCER
RECOGNIZED
HEREDITARY
PSYCHOLOGICAL
CANCER DEVELOPMENT
FACTORS AND BREAST
PROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY

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