title: [Cancer--a psychosomatic disease?].
abstract: Taking psychoanalytical aspects of psychologically caused symptoms into consideration it is discussed, whether in a narrower sense human cancer can be regarded as a psychosomatic disease or not. Research results in molecular biology including genetics are taken into account. It is held that psychogenesis as a primary cause explains only a minor part of the incidence rate of human cancer. Psychological--or neurotic--influences on the course of the disease are regarded as relatively well proved, but not as specific to cancer. Against hasty psychological explanations of cancer should be warned.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012106:Research; D012306:Risk; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Das Carcinom--eine psychosomatische Erkrankung?