12606 Mentelair Drive
Silver Spring, Maryland

20904
Feb. 22, 1971

Dr, Jeshua Ledergerg
Scheel ef Medicine
Stanferd University
Stanferd, Califernia
94,305

Dear Dr. Lederbersr:

T read with interest your article cencerning cancer
in the Feb. ljtk issue of the Washington Pest.

T kave lene been cencerned by what I suspeet misht be
a sin of omission in cancer researéh. An increasing
number of investigaters (see attached references )
believe that there may be more te cancer than meets
the micrescepe; namely, that psycheolegical facters
may play a significant part in contributing te

cancer in humans,

I weuld be glad te share with yeu, upen yeur re-

quest, the results ef a search ef the cancer literature
whieh I made in the spring of 1970 in connection with

a research prepesal en the subject ef the relationship
ef peycholegical facters te cancer. (This was dene
fer the research requirement in a Scheel ef Social
Werk, where I am a student.)

Respectfully,

ye ’ apo
r cope ou V uy be

Phyllis Begen (Mrs. Wn.)

enc.
References

Abrams, R.D. & Fimesinger, J.EF. 1953 Guilt reactiens
in patients with cancer. Cancer 6: 474-482

Geagerelli, J.A. & Kirkmwer, F.J., editers, The
Paychelegical Variables in Human Cancer. Berkeley
and Les Angeles: University ef Califernia Prass.
1954.

‘enminger, Karl. A Psychiatrist's Werld (Selected
Papers) New Yerk: The Viking Press. 1959. pee

New Yerk Academy of Sciences, Annals ef. "Conference
on Psychephysielegical Aspects ef Cancer" 1965-66.
(especially the papers by the fellewing:

Baknsen and Sahnson

Greene, Wm,

Grinker, Rey

Kissen, David

LeShan, Lawrence)