Recently diagnosed cancer survivors often drink alcohol, drink cigarettes and often sunbathe than people in the later stages of recovery, - quotes Medical Xpress research group from the research University of Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Published in the early online edition of Cancer magazine, the study outlines how the same people with a recently diagnosed cancer are least positioned to be physically intensive, eat vegetables and take part in health screening.

"There are a number of original moments that have the potential to complicate the future for people with cancer, these as the stage of the disease, their healing status, years from the stage of their diagnosis," said Warren Bickel, Creator of the study and Dr. VTCRI. "We noticed that for people who are closer in time to their own initial diagnosis, they are more likely to discount the future."

Scientists interviewed 1,000 people, of whom at different times were diagnosed with all kinds of cancer at all stages. In all areas members, which was not so long ago diagnosed, with a greater opportunity to make a painful choice, reflecting the devaluation of the future. This inability to see the future as much or more than the real one is referred to as discounting the delay.

The study highlights the idea of concluding the processes underlying healthy behavior of people who have an unseemly future aggravated by physiological and psychological trauma, Cancer has the ability to cause, according to Bickel, who is still considered a doctor of psychology at the Virginia Institute of science, Director of VTCRI servitude recovery science center and co-Director of VTCRI mid-transformational study of healthy behavior.