Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0065825

Zusammenfassung

Intact or disrupted social relationships seem to influence cancer-related mortality; however, the underlying explanations for these statistical observations are currently only incompletely understood. This research project seeks to address the biological impact of disrupted social relationships on treatment responses after modern cancer therapies to find evidence how socialization affects cancer-related mortality. It is hypothesized that there is a mechanistic link between impaired social relationships and the immune system during therapy. Specifically, the researchers speculate that ...