Is Emotional Stress Increasing Your Breast Cancer Risk?

October 11th, 2022

By Charlene Bollinger

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And while we’ve come down pretty hard on the “Pinkwashing” that happens every year, cancer awareness and prevention are what TTAC is all about. There are plenty of risk factors for breast cancer (and plenty of ways to fight back), but one of the factors that doesn’t get enough attention is the huge role our emotions can impact our risk.

Negative emotions like neglect, anger, hurt, loss, hate, resentment, or grief can be especially harmful. Worse, these negative emotions can lead to stress, which is a major contributor to diseases like cancer.  That’s why emotional stress is implicated in the development and progression of breast cancer. 

Modern medicine attributes the development of cancer to changes in DNA that reduce or eliminate the normal controls over cellular growth and programmed cell death. A growing number of people are willing to accept the fact that environmental toxins, viruses, and radiation exposure are involved in the development of cancer. Western research even supports the idea that depression can impair immune system function – the first line of defense against cancer.

However, rarely has emotional stress been considered particularly relevant to the cancer process by conventional medicine.

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