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National Cancer Institute. (2024). What Is Cancer? https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/what-is-cancer
This webpage from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health provides an overview what cancer is.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2024, June 17). Cancer risk factors. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/risk-factors/index.html
The CDC webpage identifies some of the most common risk factors for cancer, including two of the behaviors reviewed last week, smoking cigarettes and alcohol use.

National Cancer Institute. (n.d.). Stress and Cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coping/feelings/stress-fact-sheet
This webpage from the National Cancer Institute provides an overview about what is known about the relationship between stress and cancer.

Helpful Professor Explains! (2024, Apr 24). Locus of control - Explained for beginners (in 2 minutes) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46gkmZ7_5qg
Video overview (2:12 min) of the Locus of Control.

Dogonchi, M., Mohammadzadeh, F., & Moshki M. (2022). Investigating the relationship between health locus of control and health behaviors: A systematic review. Open Public Health Journal, 15, e187494452208010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/18749445-v15-e2208010
This systematic review demonstrated that those who had internal health control were more likely to engage in health behaviors.

Anagnosti, F., Hardavella, G., Lekka, D., Darahani, D., Anthouli-Anagnostopoulou, F., Papagiorgis, P., Chaniotis, D., Κarakasidou, I., & Thalassinos, N. (2023). The relationship of health locus of control and psychological distress in lung cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology, 14(2). doi: 10.4236/psych.2023.142012
This article examined patients who faced the stressors of being treated for lung cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic, and found that during this particularly stressful time, external locus of control was associated with psychological distress and behaviors which negatively affect lung cancer patients’ adjustment to their disease and quality of life.

Sharif, S. P. (2017). Locus of control, quality of life, anxiety, and depression among Malaysian breast cancer patients: The mediating role of uncertainty. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 27, 28-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2017.01.005.
Among Malaysian breast cancer patients, those with higher internal locus of control reported better quality of life, lower anxiety, and lower depression.

Marton, G., Pizzoli, S. F. M., Vergani, L., Mazzocco, K., Monzani, D., Bailo, L., Pancani, L., & Pravettoni, G. (2021). Patients’ health lacks control and preferences about the role that they want to play in the medical decision-making process. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 26(2), 260–266. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2020.1748211
This study examined the role of LOC and patients’ preferences for being involved in decisions about their healthcare.