But that doesn't mean their stress isn't clinically significant.
Many people say they never fully recover.
Their life changes forever but in a bad way, not in a good way. They're introduced to a nightmare that doesn't go away. Once people have cancer, psychological factors are now widely recognized to have a significant influence on treatment side effects, researchers find. Gary Morrow, PhD, and his colleagues at the University of Rochester for example, investigate how people develop conditioned responses to environmental cues associated with their cancer treatment. The most common, he says, occurs after chemotherapy, when many cancer patients become nauseated and vomit.