The specific action of different personality risk factors on cancer of the breast, cervix, corpus uteri and other types of cancer: A prospective investigation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 949-960

  Grossarth Maticek, R ^a   Eysenck, H J ^b   Pfeifer, A ^c   Schmidt, P ^d   Koppel, G ^d  

^a ECPD: Inst for Preventive Medicine   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Personality; Risk factors; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031537196     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00099-8     Document Type: Article

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