Transcendental meditation cuts stress, boosts mental health among breast cancer patients.Byline: ANI Washington, Oct 14 (ANI): The Transcendental Meditation Transcendental Meditation, service mark for a religious movement based on Vedanta philosophy, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Stressing natural meditation and the liberating pleasures such practices could invoke, the movement's meditation method is believed to help technique can help reduce stress and improve mental health and emotional well-being among women with breast cancer, says a new study. The study, "A Randomized Controlled Trial A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a scientific procedure most commonly used in testing medicines or medical procedures. RCTs are considered the most reliable form of scientific evidence because it eliminates all forms of spurious causality. of the Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Quality of Life in Older Breast Cancer Patients", has been published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed Integrative Cancer Therapies. "It is wonderful that physicians now have a range of interventions to use, including Transcendental Meditation, to benefit their patients with cancer," said Rhoda Pomerantz, M.D., study co-author and chief of gerontology gerontology: see geriatrics. , Saint Joseph Saint Joseph, cities, United States Saint Joseph (sānt jō`zəf). 1 City (1990 pop. 9,214), seat of Berrien co., SW Mich., a port on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the St. Joseph River across from Benton Harbor; inc. Hospital. "I believe this approach should be appreciated and utilized more widely," the expert added. One hundred thirty women with breast cancer, 55 years and older, participated in the two-year study at Saint Joseph Hospital. The women were randomly assigned to either the Transcendental Meditation technique or to a usual care control group. Patients were administered quality of life measures, including the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B), every six months for two years. The average intervention period was 18 months. Stress contributes to the onset and progression of breast cancer Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women-striking about 13 percent of women. Women over the age of 50 have four times the incidence of breast cancer compared to women below 50. "Emotional and psychosocial stress contribute to the onset and progression of breast cancer and cancer mortality," said Sanford Nidich, lead author of the study and senior researcher at the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Tuition and financial aid U.S. students More than 90% of US undergraduate students that apply for financial aid have been awarded enough funding to cover most of their tuition, fees, housing and meals costs. . "The Transcendental Meditation technique reduces stress and improves emotional well-being and mental health in older breast cancer patients. The women in the study found their meditation practice easy to do at home and reported significant benefits in their overall quality of life," Dr. Nidich said. "Decades of research have shown that stress contributes to the cause and complications of cancer," said Robert Schneider
Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum. , M.D., F.A.C.C., co-author and director of Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management. "The data from this well-designed clinical trial and related studies suggest that effective stress reduction with the Transcendental Meditation program may be useful in the prevention and treatment and of breast cancer and its deleterious deleterious adj. harmful. consequences," the researcher added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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