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Meta-analysis evaluates how psychosocial factors influence cancer risk, showing an association with lung cancer under certain conditions.
For most types of cancer, psychosocial factors (measured at a single point in time) were not associated with increased risk. PSS, currently not in a relationship, and loss were associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, although most effects attenuated when adjusting for several known risk factors.
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