Social and Psychological Differences between Cancer and Noncancer Patients: Cause or Consequence of the Disease?

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Abstract
Female patients (83) with breast tumors were interviewed prior to biopsy. The interview contained a psychological instrument measuring action control as an indicator for the patients'' reaction to stress together with questions about the expected diagnosis. Using multiple-regression analysis the explained variance of the variables relating to the histological result of the biopsy was estimated. Since most of the patients gave a correct prognosis of the nature of their disease, this variable proved to be very important, most of the social psychological findings have to be interpreted as consequences rather than causes of cancer.

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