How Stress Effects Cancer Survival

How Stress Effects Cancer Survival
John Steinbeck once wrote "A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ” Having a condition like cancer can cause great stress. Having cancer tends to raise anxiety along with over whelming stress believe it or not this can affect the survival of the diagnosed person. Recent studies have shown that a person with illnesses like cancer that can combat stress have a higher survival rate than those who don’t deal with stress well. Learning to deal with stress may greatly increase the outcome the cancer. Managing stress, alongside conventional treatment and a full lifestyle programmatic approach, may ultimately improve outcomes, says the researcher. In the meantime, the researcher urges cancer patients to try to manage in some fashion the stress associated with a life with cancer. In conclusion the author is stating that stress is a very dangerous thing and should always be in check.
I believe that this article is highly important to read because cancer is a very deadly illness and needs to be stopped so this is telling you how to manage the stress that comes with it and managing the stress will help to survive it. I feel this way because I knew stress was not good for anyone but I never knew that it would help survival rates for cancer. Also I feel this way because it has a lot of interesting fact such as how to deal with stress. However I feel that they could have went more into the survival rate of stressed people with cancer vs. those who deal with stress well. Also it might not be so important because your doctor will likely tell you how to deal with the stress and help you to deal with it. Also this article might be important because many people don’t deal with stress well.