Stress makes The Cancer more Aggressive

Facing cancer can indeed lead to feelings of despair. But try to find positive ways to deal with a sense of deep sadness and stress exacerbate the spread of cancer.

In experiments conducted on mice in the laboratory is shown how stress makes breast cancer spread to the bone. The spread of cancer or metastasis to distant organs, including bone, often causing death in cancer patients than in origin.

Research conducted Florent Elefteriou of Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology reveals that stress can activate the sympathetic nervous system and cause bones to be a good environment for the growth of breast cancer cells.

"Preventing metastasis is a goal that must be achieved in cancer therapy. From this research we expect active sympathetic nervous may reshape the bone so that the cancer spread to love it," said Elefteriou.

Previous studies also revealed that breast cancer patients who suffer from stress or depression have a shorter life expectancy.

To prevent the spread of cancer patients manage emotions is important. Besides medicine type beta-blockers are also known to prevent the spread of cancer to the bone.