Recent graduate student projects

  • Five year survivors in ovarian cancer
  • Toll-like receptor 4 activation and chronic pelvic pain
  • Diurnal cortisol slope and survival in ovarian cancer 
  • Inflammation, HPA axis and sleep in ovarian cancer
  • Resilience and tumor stress hormones in ovarian cancer
  • Childhood adversity and inflammation in healthy adults
  • Examination of sleep in ovarian cancer patients
  • Effects of cancer-induced inflammation on depression in ovarian cancer
  • Post treatment anxiety in breast cancer patients
  • Fear of recurrence among breast cancer patients
  • Effects of stress on hormonal function of men with benign prostate hyperplasia
  • Use of hypnosis during interventional radiology procedures
  • Relationships between quality of mental imagery and physiological changes during relaxation and stress
  • Study of relationships between distress and cortisol dysregulation in ovarian cancer patients.