Loneliness And Breast Cancer May Wreck Women Survival Rate

Lonely women who have survived breast cancer are 60 percent more like to have the recurrence of the disease than those who are socially active. The new study revealed that isolated women had a 40 percent greater chance. The research was conducted of nearly 10,000 patients.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Around 12 percent of all new cancer cases impinge on the breast. Survival rates are well to those countries with systems that can detect breast cancer in the early stages.

It affects thousands of women around the world each year. In the United States, it is estimated that 246,660 women are diagnosed every year. In medical terms, that would be one in every eight women. Around 40,000 women die of the said cancer every year. Currently, over 2.8 million surpasses breast cancer.

In North America, the 5-year survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer is in excess of 90 percent. However, the average survival rate depends on a variety of factors. Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California confirmed that 9,267 women with breast cancer during the two years after being diagnosed reflect their social status and their chances of survival.

The recent research confirmed that loneliness and lack of social life increase the risk of early death, which 29 and 32 percent risk of mortality. Dr. Candyce Kroenke set the link between social isolation and survival rates. The period of research was 10.6 years which recorded 1,521 deaths and 1,448 cancer recurrences. The results revealed that having social ties will increase the survival rates.

The optimistic impact of breast cancer patients having a spouse was more distinct in older white women, but in others, it was social ties with other relatives which appeared to make a difference. The correlations determine to be stronger in stages one or two of breast cancer. The findings of the new research were published in the journal Cancer.