title: [Life events and breast cancer. Initial results of a comparative study dealing with 100 cases and their control].
abstract: The authors present the first results of a case-control study relative to the importance of life events in the 5 years which precede the clinical apparition of breast cancer. This study has examined a group of 100 women of french origin, aged from 45 to 65 years and carriers of a breast cancer which had been diagnosed less than a year ago, as well as their controls matched according to age. If the total number of events is similar in the two groups, there appears a negative peak of social desirability events in the two years preceding the diagnosis of cancer. The quantification of event impact by the subjects shows a greater vulnerability in women with cancer.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Evènements de la vie et cancer du sein. Premiers résultats d'une étude comparative portant sur 100 cas et leurs témoins.