When someone is diagnosed with cancer, we often see comments like “keep fighting, you’ve got this!”. Is there any scientific basis behind this actually having an effect on the outcome / survival and remission rates? What exactly are they doing when they’re “fighting” that helps to beat the cancer?
In: Biology
The human body can do some pretty surprising things, and keeping one’s motivation up is at least good for morale. It’s not out of the question that refusing to give up can indeed help fight off cancer. The flip side to this is that people who “give up” do indeed have higher mortality rates, cancer or no.
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