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Stressful Life Events and Survival After Breast Cancer

Elizabeth Maunsell, PhD, Jacques Brisson, MD, ScD, Myrto Mondor, MSc, René Verreault, MD, PhD and Luc Deschênes, MD, FRCSC

From the Epidemiology Research Group (E.M., J.B., M.M., L.D.), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (E.M., J.B., M.M., R.V.), and Department of Surgery (L.D.), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.



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  		Fig. 1. Kaplan-Meier survival curves for women with 0 to 1 and 2 to 15 stressful life events throughout the 7-year period of the study.

 


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  		Fig. 2. Model of possible pathway by which stress might affect mortality through immunological changes.

 




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