Cancer-Specific Stress and Mood Disturbance: Implications for Symptom Perception, Quality of Life, and Immune Response in Women Shortly after Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Table 3

Correlations between study variables.

	Cancer stress	Mood disturbance	Symptoms	QOL
Mood disturbance	.57**	—
Symptoms	.45**	.54**	—
QOL	−.43**	−.56**	−.45**	—
WBC	−.08	.25*	−.00	.02
Neutrophil %	.08	.39**	.14	−.37**
Lymphocyte %	−.08	−.34**	−.18	.43**
NLR	.04	.40**	.18	−.39**

** 𝑃≤.01, *𝑃≤.05. QOL: quality of life; WBC: total leukocytes; NLR: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.