2010

The Intriguing ‘Link’ Between Depression and Cancer Those of you who read my ground-breaking round up of successful (and some not-so-successful)  cancer alternative therapies called “Cancer Research Secrets” will know that I lay great emphasis on the psychological aspect of cancer containment. My friend Lee Euler, who is an internationally-acclaimed copy writer, also happens to be a good author and recently wrote a very good piece on this very topic and Lee has agreed I can print it here, in full. Martin, a 70-year old Georgia resident, experienced two major losses within a short time. First he lost his wife of 40 years. Then he remarried, but his new wife of 6 weeks jilted and deserted him. He became very depressed. Two and a half years later Martin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.1 Was there a hidden link between his depression and the cancer? A study published in the September/October 2003 Psychosomatic Medicine suggests there IS such a link. In the jargon of science, the findings are “statistically significant”. So is cancer just the last straw in an unhappy life?

The Intriguing ‘Link’ Between Depression and Cancer Those of you who read my ground-breaking round up of successful (and some not-so-successful)  cancer alternative therapies called “Cancer Research Secrets” will know that I lay great emphasis on the psychological aspect of cancer containment. My friend Lee Euler, who is an internationally-acclaimed copy writer, also happens to be a good author and recently wrote a very good piece on this very topic and Lee has agreed I can print it here, in full. Martin, a 70-year old Georgia resident, experienced two major losses within a short time. First he lost his wife of 40 years. Then he remarried, but his new wife of 6 weeks jilted and deserted him. He became very depressed. Two and a half years later Martin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.1 Was there a hidden link between his depression and the cancer? A study published in the September/October 2003 Psychosomatic Medicine suggests there IS such a link. In the jargon of science, the findings are “statistically significant”. So is cancer just the last straw in an unhappy life?