Nearly everyone recognizes that unresolved stress can cause health problems. It is my belief that it is the primary reason why most people develop chronic illness. Now a 24-year study of women in Sweden has shown that those who reported high levels of stress at the start--including tension, fear, anxiety and sleeplessness--were twice as likely to develop breast cancer as those with low levels of stress. Prostate cancer is the male equivalent of breast cancer and five years ago I posted an article showing that stress and prostate cancer are related.
Independent September 25, 2003