Do not talk to the man about cancer

If a man said that he had prostate cancer, then this news will be for him a monstrous shock that increases the risk of death from heart attack by 11 times! And the attack can occur in the first week after the news of the diagnosis. The most startling that at risk are young people and those who have never had any heart problems.

Swedish researchers who conducted the study also found that in the first year after the announcement of the diagnosis of the patient is maintained not only by the high risk of death from a heart attack, but the threat of suicide. The Swedes call oncologists carefully check their patients' psychological stability before reporting them about the deadly disease. People with unstable mentality is better not to tell the truth.

The researchers examined the records of 4, 3 million men, including 170 000 patients   prostate cancer   between 1961 and 2004. Based on these statistics, and it was concluded by the fragility and sensibility men.

British doctors refer to the conclusions of its Swedish colleagues with caution. Dr. Sarah Kant Society on struggle with prostate cancer says that the Swedes did not take into account such major risk factors as age, high blood pressure and mental illness.

But Swedish scientists believe that roughly the same pattern can be found and among women who reported breast cancer. But this requires new research. Traditional western doctors prefer to tell patients the truth about their diagnosis and prognosis of the disease. In Russia, by contrast, decided to hide from the end of the sick fatal diagnosis.

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