Cancer Is Worsened By Social Isolation

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Using mice as a model to study human breast cancer, researchers have demonstrated that a negative social environment (in this case, isolation) causes increased tumor growth. The work shows - for the first time - that social isolation is associated with altered gene expression in mouse mammary glands, and that these changes are accompanied by larger tumors.

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