Social isolation may make cancer more deadly, US research on mice suggests.
Researchers found the social environment can modify the biology of the disease – and lead to significant differences in outcome.
Female mice stressed because they were separated from their mothers developed more and larger mammary gland tumours than more contented animals.
The University of Chicago study appears in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
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