Even with cancer survival rates notably improving during the last few years, cancer is still one of the leading causes of death in the United States and internationally. Finding a way to cure, combat, and prevent cancer is one of the top priorities for researchers, scientists, and medical professionals. Many efforts are being put into bettering chemotherapy, but one recent discovery might not have been so expected. Researchers found that social interaction is capable of increasing a person's chance of survival after they have started cancer treatment. To read their full findings, their work has been published in the journal Network Science.
The Study
Researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), in collaboration with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, found a gap in information regarding social interaction, and its effect on those with cancer. Being that such little data was available, they set out to test the influence of social interaction on the effectiveness of common cancer therapies, especially chemotherapy - being that it is the most common cancer therapy. They were seeking data on how survival rates would be altered when chemotherapy was combined with social interaction.
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