Housing upgrade shrinks tumors in mice with cancer

Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 11:14 in Health & Medicine

When mice with cancer get a boost in their social life and an upgrade in living conditions, their tumors shrink, and their cancers more often go into spontaneous remission Reported in the July 9th issue of the journal Cell, these findings offer powerful new evidence of the critical role that social connection and an individual's mental state, may play in cancer.

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