Strong Social Ties Benefit Breast Cancer Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110120151644.htm

ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Breast cancer patients who have a strong social support system in the first year after diagnosis are less likely to die or have a recurrence of cancer, according to new research from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and the Shanghai Institute of Preventive Medicine. The study, led by first author Meira Epplein, Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine at VICC, was published in a recent edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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