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Cancer, stress, and death / edited by Jean Tache, Hans Selye, and Stacey B. Day.

Contributor(s): Taché, Jean | Selye, Hans, 1907- | Day, Stacey B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Sloan-Kettering Institute cancer series: Publisher: New York : Plenum Medical Book Co., 1979Description: xxi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0306401436.Subject(s): Cancer -- Psychosomatic aspects -- Congresses | Cancer -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses | Stress (Physiology) -- Congresses | Stress (Psychology) -- Congresses | Death -- Psychological aspects -- CongressesDDC classification: 616.994
Contents:
Introduction: stress as a cause of disease / Jean Tache -- Stress, cancer and the mind / Hans Selye -- The possible effects of emotional stress on cancer mediated through the immune system / Martin G. Lewis and Terence M. Phillips -- Stress, hormone responses and cancer / G. M. Brown, J. Seggie and P. Etiggi -- The biological axis of senescence, stress and aging as construct for cancer, disease and death / Stacey B. Day and O. Garzon Duhov -- Advanced malignant disease and the person under stress / Balfour Mount -- The homeostatic significance of the death-life cycle dynamics in mental functions / Wolfgang Luthe -- The cancer patient as educator and counselor / Barbara G. Cox -- Anticipatory grief, stress and the surrogate griever / Robert Fulton -- Bereavement: including some iatrogenic aspects of grief / Terence E. Lear -- Physical deteriotation in patients with advanced cancer / Irwin H. Krakoff -- Summary comments / Joel Elkes -- Telling the truth to the dying patient / Eric J. Cassell -- The use of group meetings with cancer patients and their families / Mary L. S. Vachon, W. Alan Lyall, Joy Rogers, Anton Formo, Karen Freedman, Jeanette Cochrane and Stanley J. J. Freeman -- Stress, cancer, death - a pediatric perspective / Debbie Bowles and Janet Schyving Payne -- Rural cancer death / Stephen Nye Barton, David W. Coombs and John P. Zakanycz -- Discussion -- Stress and cancer: a disease of adaptation? / Paul J. Rosch -- Death not the mysterium tremendum: a summary overview / Stacey B. Day.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

When I delivered the keynote address at our joint 1977 symposium on Cancer, Stress, and Death in Montreal, I took great pride in announcing my unique qualification for this singular honor-I had survived a normally fatal cancer, a histiocytic reticulosarcoma that had developed under the skin of my thigh several years pre#65533; viously. Faced with the physical and emotional realities of this situa#65533; tion, I refused to retreat from life in desperation. I immediately underwent surgery and cobalt therapy, but insisted on knowing my chances for a lasting recovery, which at that time seemed far from encouraging. Although I knew it would take tremendous self-discipline, I was determined to continue living and working without worrying about the outcome. I suppressed any thoughts of my ostensibly imminent death, but rewrote my will, including in it several suggestions for the continuation of my work by my colleagues. Having taken care of that business, I promptly forced myself to disregard the whole calamity. I immersed myself in my work-and I survived! But, of course, this was not my only reason for my feelings of pride and accomplishment.

Bibliography: p. 219-223. - Includes index.

Introduction: stress as a cause of disease / Jean Tache -- Stress, cancer and the mind / Hans Selye -- The possible effects of emotional stress on cancer mediated through the immune system / Martin G. Lewis and Terence M. Phillips -- Stress, hormone responses and cancer / G. M. Brown, J. Seggie and P. Etiggi -- The biological axis of senescence, stress and aging as construct for cancer, disease and death / Stacey B. Day and O. Garzon Duhov -- Advanced malignant disease and the person under stress / Balfour Mount -- The homeostatic significance of the death-life cycle dynamics in mental functions / Wolfgang Luthe -- The cancer patient as educator and counselor / Barbara G. Cox -- Anticipatory grief, stress and the surrogate griever / Robert Fulton -- Bereavement: including some iatrogenic aspects of grief / Terence E. Lear -- Physical deteriotation in patients with advanced cancer / Irwin H. Krakoff -- Summary comments / Joel Elkes -- Telling the truth to the dying patient / Eric J. Cassell -- The use of group meetings with cancer patients and their families / Mary L. S. Vachon, W. Alan Lyall, Joy Rogers, Anton Formo, Karen Freedman, Jeanette Cochrane and Stanley J. J. Freeman -- Stress, cancer, death - a pediatric perspective / Debbie Bowles and Janet Schyving Payne -- Rural cancer death / Stephen Nye Barton, David W. Coombs and John P. Zakanycz -- Discussion -- Stress and cancer: a disease of adaptation? / Paul J. Rosch -- Death not the mysterium tremendum: a summary overview / Stacey B. Day.

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