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December 8, 2009

In Cancer-Ridden Rats, Loneliness Can Kill

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Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors - and tumors of a more deadly type - than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago...

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Stress Of Isolation Linked To More And Deadlier Breast Cancer Tumors

A new US study found that socially isolated female rats developed more breast cancer tumors, including a higher number of malignant tumors, leading the researchers to suspect that the stress of isolation from a group triggered fear and anxiety which in turn increased susceptibility to and the deadliness of breast cancer...

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