[Psychosocial factors and cancer. A study of 80 women by means of a psychosocial questionnaire (author's transl)].

The psychosocial questionnaire compiled by C. B. Bahnson and M. B. Bahnson and adapted for the German-speaking area was used to question 40 female cancer patients (30 mammary, 6 gastric and 4 pulmonary carcinomata) aged between 36 and 64 years and 40 control subjects selected by the matched pairs method. The cross section examination showed significant differences (p less than or equal to 0.05) between cancer patients and control subjects on single variate examination in 10 individual variables. Discriminant analysis (multivariate examination) revealed a discriminant function of 12 variables which enabled the classification of the entire collective of subjects with 95 percent accuracy in the carcinoma and control groups. Our results confirm largely the hypotheses developed in the USA.