Good news for people who love bad news: a positive mindset, faith in a Higher Power, or plain ole optimism will NOT help you beat cancer. Penn’s very own James C. Coyne is lead author of a forthcoming study that concludes a patient’s emotional status has no bearing on cancer survival.
The nature of the study itself isn’t particularly uplifting. Coyne studied some 1,093 patients, 646 of whom died during the length of the study. Hoorah!
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