Life change and lung cancer.
Seventy-four lung cancer patients were studied with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. There was a significantly higher association of recent life change with younger cancer patients than with older ones. There was no such difference in a control group of colorectal cancer patients. These results imply that lung cancer patients fall into two groups: a younger group, in which life change is a promoting factor, and an older group, in which life change has little or no effect in precipitating the onset of the disease.
D000367:Age Factors; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000209:etiology