Do [ Pessimistic explanatory style and lack of agency characterise the narratives of depressive patients ]?
Lack of agency and pessimistic explanatory style characterised depressive patients as opposed to healthy persons. Results suggest that negative life events could be both the reasons and the consequences of depressive world view.
Melanoma and breast cancer prognosis are adversely affected by recent gestation and childbirth in a way that is not due to stage of the cancer, but rather to inherent biological properties of the tumours. Possible biological mechanisms include immunosuppression (melanoma), the hormonal milieu in gestation and a tumour promoting microenvironment post-partum (breast cancer).