BREAKING: Loneliness Found to Increase Breast Cancer Risk

When I as four years old, I was at my mother’s bedside. Piercing her left arm at the elbow she had a long needle attached to the end of a clear plastic tube. The tube dripped a clear fluid into Mom’s arm at the rate of a slightly leaky faucet in an old house.
She [...]

Isolation and Cancer: Supplement chemo with family game night

Just like a fairy tale, an important life lesson has been delivered to us from the unlikeliest of sources – a bunch of mice.  According to recent news, scientists have determined that social isolation makes cancer worse.  Scientists at University of Chicago have shown that in a study of mice that were genetically predisposed to [...]

1 Top Unknown Factor in Cancer Likelihood: Loneliness

Fewer cancer causing genes activated in the social mice

Recent studies have shown that some types of cancer are genetically predisposed, meaning that there are certain inherited genes which, if expressed, will trigger cancer growth.  In other words, just because you have a cancer causing gene doesn’t mean that it will be expressed – some genes [...]