{"id":903,"date":"2004-06-01T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"epidemiology-stressed-caregivers-dont-face-higher-risk-of-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"epidemiology: stressed caregivers don&#8217;t face higher risk of breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s long been thought that stress might be a  factor in the development of breast cancer, but a study in the June 1  issue of the <em>American Journal of Epidemiology<\/em> suggests otherwise.  Candyce Kroenke of Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital and Harvard Medical  School presents evidence that the long-term stress of caregiving does  not appear to increase the risk of breast cancer. She and her colleagues  tracked 69,886 women ages 46 to 71 over a period of eight years. Out of  that number, 1,700 developed breast cancer. The team found that women  who spent more hours caring for a disabled or ill adult or child, and  reported higher levels of stress, did not have a higher incidence of  breast cancer. Instead, they found that women who were caregivers more  than 15 hours a week had relatively low levels of sex steroid hormones,  suggesting that chronic stress could possibly lower breast cancer risk.  Kroenke stated in a press release that she hoped the research would &#8220;be  reassuring to women.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/01\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s long been thought that stress might be a factor in the development of breast cancer, but a study in the June 1 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests otherwise. Candyce Kroenke of Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}