Stress and Tumors, What You Need to Know
Jan 14, 2010 | Posted by bryan | 0 Comments
Research Suggests Stress Can Trigger Tumor Development
Physical and mental stress can cause cancerous tumors to develop in the human body, according to new research.
The team of scientists at Yale University in Connecticut, led by Professor Tian Xu, used fruit flies to examine the activity and mutation effects of two genes which are associated with the development of human cancers.
They found that stress conditions, such as wounding, can trigger cancer signals which could then develop into the deadly disease.
Professor Xu explained: “A lot of different conditions can trigger stress signaling, physical stress, emotional stress, infections, inflammation – all these things.”
He described the findings as “another bad news for cancer”.
The research also discovered that only one cancer-causing mutation need to take place in order for tumours to grow.
Prior to the Yale study, scientists believed that in order for tumor to appear, at least two mutations needed to take place.
The research was published in the journal Nature on January 13th.
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