Cancer—Does The Mind Play A Healing Role In Cancer

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A recent study concerning the importance of the mindset of cancer patients was recently published that confirmed what many natural practitioners have known all along…the attitude plays a huge role in disease. The study considered the personality traits, such as dispositional optimism and mastery, of 214 cancer patients who were receiving chemotherapy, to ascertain how they affect the patients’ ability to handle the severity of their cancer fatigue and pain.

Participants of the study were put through a 10-week symptom control intervention program, with the assistance of a nurse. They were questioned 3 times – at the beginning of the study, after ten weeks at the end of the intervention program, and once more after 16 weeks, to get a feel of their emotional states.

Findings of Study

The study, which was printed in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, found that those participants who had higher degrees of mastery described feeling less severe pain as well as lower levels of fatigue.

On top of that, participants who had a more cheerful mind-set also experienced less severe pain, although in this case, higher levels of optimism did not translate to less severe fatigue.

These findings were adjusted for additional crucial factors, such as age, gender, cancer location, stage of the disease, and other health issues which may be afflicting the participants.

Suppressed Natural Cancer Remedies Click Here To Learn MoreAdditional findings of the study include less severe cancer pain for those patients who were older and those with fewer health issues on top of their cancer diagnosis, whilst the latter group also described lower degrees of fatigue.

Additionally, the study team reported not much difference in the degree of optimism and mastery detected between patients whose cancers were discovered early on and those who were suffering from late stage disease. This is a significant point as it eliminates, to some extent, the possibility that optimistic attitudes may have been caused by less severe disease and pain, rather than vice versa.

Along similar lines, it was ascertained that the number of additional health issues on top of cancer did not appear to act upon the baseline levels of optimism and mastery of the subjects.

What Can Be Done

The study team indicated that clinicians could look out for such traits in cancer patients, and work with them to help them employ these traits to better deal with their cancer symptoms.

“These findings underscore the need for physicians and nurses involved in the care of cancer patients to recognize, encourage, promote, and take advantage of these traits in their patients to help them more effectively manage their cancer care, so that they ultimately can achieve a better quality of life during the sequelae of the cancer experience,” the study team concluded.

On a personal level, cancer patients and their loved ones need to do more to assist in improving the emotional outlooks of cancer sufferers; laugh, hang out with and talk to positive people, pray, meditate, go for counseling – do anything to raise one’s levels of optimism and mastery.

According to the finds of this Michigan study, this can help one deal with cancer pain and fatigue.

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Keith M Henry is the Director of phase 3ministries, based in Orlando FL. He is medical missionary herbalist, and Naturopathic doctor candidate. Download your free copy of his report, Emergency Herbal Medicine, HERE. It may very well save your life.

Source Natural News.com