Social Isolation Worsens Cancer, Mouse Study Suggests

Using mice as a model to study human breast cancer, researchers have demonstrated that a negative social isolation causes increased tumor growth. The work shows -- for the first time -- that social isolation is associated with altered gene expression in mouse mammary glands, and that these changes are accompanied by larger tumors. This novel finding may begin to explain how the environment affects human susceptibility to other chronic diseases: central obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension.

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