Chronic stress has been shown to be related to dysregulation of a number of physiological
systems critical to health maintenance. In contrast, stress moderators have been shown
to buffer deleterious effects of stress on the body. Psychological factors such as
stress are known to influence activity in the sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal
axis [
[1]
]. The focus of our laboratory has been on measuring stress, social support and disease
parameters in patients with gynecologic cancers, using validated self-report questionnaires
and objective measures of immune function such as natural killer cell cytotoxicity
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☆This report is based on a presentation given at the 4th International Conference on Cervical Cancer.
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