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Objective
The diagnosis of cancer in a child is a profoundly stressful experience. The impact on parents' somatic health, including lifestyle‐related diseases, however, is unresolved. This paper assesses parents' risk of hospitalization with somatic disease after a child's cancer diagnosis.
Methods
We conducted a nationwide population‐ and register‐based study with parents of all children under...
Stress has been suggested to reduce survival after cancer, but the results of previous studies have been contradictory. We investigated the hypothesis in a national cohort of adults in Finland. Of those who completed the Stressful Life Events scale and the Stress of Daily Activities scale, 1470 and 1882, respectively, later had cancer and were included in the analysis, covering 23 years of follow-up...
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