Impact of life events on survival of patients with localized melanoma

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 191-193

  Lehto, Ulla Sisko ^a,c,e   Ojanen, Markku ^b   Dyba, Tadeusz ^d   Aromaa, Arpo ^e   Kellokumpu Lehtinen, Pirkko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84858330046     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334486     Document Type: Letter

References (32)

1. Barraclough J, Pinder P, Cruddas M, Osmond C, Taylor I, Perry M: Life events and breast cancer prognosis. BMJ 1992; 304: 1078-1081.
2. Dolbeaut S, Szporn A, Holland JC: Psycho-oncology: where have we been? Where are we going? Eur J Cancer 1999; 35: 1554-1558. (Pubitemid 29454526)
3. Garssen B, Goodkin K: On the role of immunological factors as mediators between psychosocial factors and cancer progression. Psychiatry Res 1999; 85: 51-61. (Pubitemid 29125299)
4. Garssen B: Psychological factors and cancer development: evidence after 30 years of research. Clin Psychol Rev 2004; 24: 315-338. (Pubitemid 38881545)
5. Forsen A: Psychosocial stress as a risk for breast cancer. Psychother Psychosom 1991; 55: 176-185.
6. Martikainen P, Valkonen T: Mortality after a death of a spouse: rates and causes of death in a large Finnish cohort. Am J Public Health 1996; 86: 1087-1093. (Pubitemid 26271533)
7. Maunsell E, Brisson J, Mondor M, Verreault R, Deschenes L: Stressful life events and survival after breast cancer. Psychosom Med 2001; 63: 306-315. (Pubitemid 32249956)
8. Giraldi T, Rodani M, Cartei G, Grassi L: Psychosocial factors and breast cancer: a 6-year Italian follow-up study. Psychother Psychosom 1997; 66: 229-236. (Pubitemid 27399510)
9. Tiersma ESM, van der Lee ML, Garssen B, Peters AAW, Visser AP, Fleuren GJ, van Leeuwen KM, le Cessie S, Goodkin K: Psychosocial factors and the course of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia: a prospective study. Gynecol Oncol 2005; 97: 879-886. (Pubitemid 40824660)
10. Chida Y, Hamer M, Wardle J, Steptoe A: Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival? Nat Clin Pract Oncol 2008; 5: 466-475.
11. Palesh O, Butler L, Koopman C, Giese-Davis J, Carlson R, Spiegel D: Stress history and breast cancer recurrence. J Psychosom Res 2007; 63: 233-239. (Pubitemid 47268531)
12. Gerits P: Life events, coping, and breast cancer: state of the art. Biomed Pharmacother 2000; 54: 229-233. (Pubitemid 30432090)
13. Ogden J: Stress; Health Psychology: A Textbook. Maidenhead, Open University Press, 2004, pp 233-241.
14. Kornblith AB, Herndon JE 2nd, Zuckerman E, Viscoli CM, Horwitz RI, Cooper MR, Harris L, Tkaczuk KH, Perry MC, Budman D, Norton LC, Holland J, Cancer and Leukemia Group B: Social support as a buffer to the psychological impact of stressful life events in women with breast cancer. Cancer 2001; 91: 443-454. (Pubitemid 32099248)
15. Segerstrom S: Individual differences, immunity, and cancer: lessons from personality psychology. Brain Behav Immun 2003; 17: 92-97.
16. Lutgendorf SK: Individual differences and immune function: implications for cancer. Brain Behav Immun 2003; 17:S106-S107.
17. Zimmerman M: Weighted versus unweighted life events scores: is there a difference? J Human Stress 1983; 9: 30-35. (Pubitemid 14139384)
18. Sarason I, Johnson J, Siegel J: Assessing the impact of life changes: development of the life experiences survey. J Consult Clin Psychol 1978; 46: 932-946. (Pubitemid 9038992)
19. Dohrenwend BP: Inventorying stressful life events as risk factors for psychopathology: toward resolution of the problem of intracategory variability. Psychol Bull 2006; 132: 477-495. (Pubitemid 43848892)
20. Kiecolt-Glaser JK, Glaser R: Psychoneuroimmunology and cancer: fact or fiction? Eur J Cancer 1999; 35: 1581-1586.
21. Golden-Kreutz DM, Thornton LM, Wells-Di Gregorio S, Frierson GM, Jim HS, Carpenter KM, Shelby RA, Andersen BL: Traumatic stress, perceived global stress, and life events: prospectively predicting quality of life in breast cancer patients. Health Psychol 2005;24: 288-296. (Pubitemid 40677200)
22. Lehto U-S, Ojanen M, Väkevä A, Aromaa A, Kellokumpu-Lehtinen P: Noncancer life stresses in newly diagnosed cancer. Support Care Cancer 2008; 16: 1231-1241.
23. Lehto U-S, Ojanen M, Kellokumpu-Lehtinen P: Predictors of quality of life in newly diagnosed melanoma and breast cancer patients. Ann Oncol 2005; 16: 805-816. (Pubitemid 40767104)
24. Butler L, Koopman C, Classen C, Spiegel D: Traumatic stress, life events, and emotional support in women with metastatic breast cancer: cancer-related traumatic stress symptoms associated with past and current stressors. Health Psychol 1999; 18: 555-560.
25. Bardwell WA, Major JM, Rock CL, Newman VA, Thomson CA, Chilton JA, Dimsdale JE, Pierce JP: Health-related quality of life in women previously treated for early-stage breast cancer. Psychooncology 2004; 13: 595-604.
26. Lehto U-S, Ojanen M, Dyba T, Aromaa A, Kellokumpu-Lehtinen P: Baseline psychosocial predictors of survival in localized breast cancer. Br J Cancer 2006; 94: 1245-1252.
27. Lehto U-S, Ojanen M, Dyba T, Aromaa A, Kellokumpu-Lehtinen P: Baseline psychosocial predictors of survival in localized melanoma. J Psychosom Res 2007; 63: 9-15. (Pubitemid 46935792)
28. Cox D: Regression models and life-tables (with discussion). Stat Methodol 1972; 34: 187-220.
29. Butow PN, Coates AS, Dunn SM: Psychosocial predictors of survival in metastatic melanoma. J Clin Oncol 1999; 17: 2256-2263. (Pubitemid 29318860)
30. Butow PN, Coates AS, Dunn S: Psychosocial predictors of survival: metastatic breast cancer. Ann Oncol 2000; 11: 469-474. (Pubitemid 30333552)
31. Folkman S, Lazarus RS: Manual for the Ways of Coping Questionnaire. Palo Alto, Consulting Psychologists Press, 1988.
32. Lazarus RS: Coping theory and research: past, present, and future. Psychosom Med 1993; 55: 234-247. (Pubitemid 23155671)