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Stress Causes Cancer Cells to Resist Treatment
Week of February 11 - Relax… it could help you fight cancer. A new study finds emotional stress can actually cause breast cancer cells to grow stronger, even resist treatment. Dr. David Winter tells us more in tonight’s HealthSource report.
LORLEE BARTOS
Breast Cancer Survivor
“I always was a gardener, I do gardening now and I do it more… it relieves my stress.”
DR. WINTER
It’s not just a hobby… according to experts, the time breast cancer survivor Lorlee Bartos spends tending her flowers is helping her stay cancer-free.
DR. JOHN PIPPEN
Oncologist
Baylor University Medical Center
“We’ve always been suspicious that higher stress can lead to disease processes such as activation of cancer, but there’s some new research out there that shows there really is a scientific basis for this.”
DR. WINTER
It has to do with the hormone epinephrine which sharply increases in response to stress—and is also now believed to make cancer cells stronger—even resistant to treatment.
DR. JOHN PIPPEN
“Basically what this is doing is keeping the cancer cells alive and giving them an advantage.”
LORLEE BARTOS
“I keep reading those studies… and it just reinforces me in my resolve to continue.”
DR. WINTER
It’s important news not just for breast cancer patients say researchers—but for all women since chronic stress is now believed to be one of the risk factors for developing the disease.
DR. JOHN PIPPEN
“I feel that patients that have effective strategies to reduce stress typically do better and feel better than those that do not.”
LORLEE BARTOS
“Once you get out there… it’s amazing… it takes you over and you forget about everything else.”
DR. WINTER
For Baylor Health Care System, I’m Dr. David Winter.
ANCHOR TAG
It’s not just hobbies but regular exercise that researchers say is an effective way to manage and reduce stress.