title: Stressful life events and cancer risk.
abstract: In a prospective cohort study in Denmark of 8736 randomly selected people, no evidence was found among 1011 subjects who developed cancer that self-reported stressful major life events had increased their risk for cancer.
authors.affiliation: Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. bergelt@uke.uni-humburg.de
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bergelt
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prescott
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grønbaek
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Johansen
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*