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It has been known for a long time that people who are frequently depressed, or who have suffered a great loss which affects them strongly emotionally (for instance the loss of a spouse) more frequently develop cancerous tumors than the average population [1]. This is usually explained by the fact that in the case of people with certain unhealthy states of mind, the material structure of the brain is also influenced (mind-brain parallelism). Since parts of the brain control the synthesis of the steroid type cancer promoters like phorbol esters [2] (see also Chapter 3), changes in the brain influence the synthesis and concentrations of these compounds.
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Ladik, J., Förner, W. (1994). The Role of the Central Nervous System in the Malignant Transformation of Cells in Higher Organisms. In: The Beginnings of Cancer in the Cell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78984-7_9
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