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The Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD


                         
HEAL YOUR BODY OF CANCER
USING THE MIND-BODY SELF HYPNOSIS CANCER CD


The Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD will 1) Help you to heal your body of cancer by facilitating the release of harmful toxic emotions that cause your normal body cells to mutate and become cancerous, 2) Help you to heal your body of cancer by significantly lowering stress hormone cortisol levels that suppress immune system function, and 3) Help you to heal your body of cancer by boosting your immune system and destroying cancer cells using powerful guided imagery suggestions. 

Guided imagery has been found in many studies to help those with cancer boost their immune system and fight cancer. 
And guided imagery is most successful, when you are in a state of self-hypnosis (deep mental relaxation), where your subconscious mind is far more accessible and suggestible.  
 

Professor Leslie Walker of The University of Hull – Institute of Rehabilitation, studied the effects of guided imagery/hypnotherapy on breast cancer and lymph cancer patients.  He found a significant increase in natural killer cells and T cells in all patients using these techniques.  He also discovered that those given guided imagery/hypnotherapy lived on average 32 months longer than those in the control group who were not using these techniques.

The now famous study by Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford School of Medicine reported that metastatic breast cancer patients who were in a support group that used self-hypnosis as well as other mind-body techniques lived some 18 months longer than the control group (who did not use these techniques).

The Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine found that psychological (emotional release) intervention lowered distress and increased coping abilities in cancer patients and significantly increased cancer survival.  Six years after the study, 10 of 34 patients in the control group who were NOT given psychological intervention had died, compared to only 3 of 34 patients given psychological intervention.

The Ontario Cancer Institute / Princess Margaret Hospital conducted a 5 year “Prospective, longitudinal study of the relationship of psychological work to duration of survival in patients with metastatic cancer”.  They found a strong association between longer survival and psychological factors related to the involvement of cancer patients in psychological self-help activities.  Median survival of the 22 subjects was 2.25 times that predicted by the oncology panel (with six subjects still alive at the time of writing).


THE MIND-BODY SELF HYPNOSIS CANCER CD WILL HELP YOU TO:

Heal Your Body of Cancer by letting go of Past Emotional Pain that has contributed to the onset and development of your cancer
Uncover Repressed Negative Emotions at the Subconscious Level that are destroying your immune system 

Boost Your Immune System & Fight Cancer using powerful Guided Imagery suggestions and phrasing
Remove Stress from your Body that has depleted Adrenaline levels and caused your body cells to become full of Sugar, low in Oxygen, and Cancerous

Dramatically Lower Stress Hormone Cortisol levels that are directly suppressing your Immune System and allowing cancer cells to thrive
Dramatically
Lower Stress Hormone Norepinephrine / Epinephrine levels that stimulate tumor cell growth causing Metastasis 
lncrease Cancer-Fighting Melatonin levels - produced during deep sleep - by helping to remove internal stress that disrupts sleep patterns
Overcome Prolonged Grief or Complicated Grief that is feeding your cancer by depleting your cells of adrenaline and causing them to become highly acidic & mutate
Feel more in control of your own healing and heal from the inside out!


WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT INTERNAL STRESS,
CANCER AND LIFE EXPECTANCY:


According to Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, "Women with advanced breast cancer who have abnormal daytime levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress, are significantly more likely to die sooner than cancer patients with normal levels of the hormone... Women with these abnormal cortisol levels had fewer immune system cells known as natural killer cells, and this reduced immunity was associated with higher mortality". 

Researchers at Ohio State University found that the highly stressed women had lower levels of natural killer cells than women who reported less stress.  "Natural killer cells have an extremely important function with regard to cancer because they are capable of detecting and killing cancer cells.  Psychological interventions, such as forgiveness, have important roles in reducing stress, but also in extending survival". 


For Lothar Hirneise, world-renowned cancer researcher: "Cancer cannot exist without stress.  One hundred percent impossible!  There are lots of debates on types of stress - physical and pyschological (emotional) - but for a cell it doesn't matter where the stress comes from.  Every cancer patient has a sugar problem.  Insulin transports sugar to cells.  Adrenaline takes it away.  You have an excess of adrenaline initially when under stress, however, long-term stress results in adrenaline shortages.  That's what you see in cancer patients". 

IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL FOR THE CANCER PATIENT
TO UNCOVER & RELEASE TOXIC NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THAT ARE
CAUSING INTERNAL STRESS - IN ORDER TO HEAL FROM CANCER

THE MIND-BODY SELF HYPNOSIS CANCER CD:
UNCOVERING & RELEASING TOXIC NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
 

Typical of the cancer-personality is to harbor long-standing toxic emotions, such as anger, resentment, hate/hostility, and grief. 

Before you can let go of something you must first hold it in the palm of your hands.  This is the same with feelings.  Before you can let go of feelings of anger, hate, resentment, and grief, you must first face them, own them, honour them, by feeling and expressing these feelings fully and completely. 

The Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD (Track 2) combines the use of Gestalt Role-Play therapy and Regression therapy, allowing you to re-live painful memories and to fully and completely express negative feelings that have remained trapped inside of you for many years. 

Re-living painful memories and giving yourself permission to fully and completely feel and express the painful feelings associated with them, is a liberating and healing experience.  It is the key to your health and well-being.  It is the key to releasing harmful negative energy from your body's cells, cells that mutate into cancer cells when under constant stress, due to depleted adrenaline levels, low oxygen levels, and high sugar levels.  And when practiced regularly, overtime, is the key to your healing and recovery from cancer.


THE MIND-BODY SELF HYPNOSIS CANCER CD:
BOOSTING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM & FIGHTING CANCER

Imagine for a moment that your immune system is strong and formidable.  Imagine your immune system cells doubling, tripling, quadrupling, and becoming so strong that all cancer cells within your body are destroyed and eliminated.

Imagine weak cancer cells within your body being destroyed by your strong and formidable immune system cells.  Imagine tumours within your body are shrinking and being torn apart by your powerful immune system T cells and Natural Killer cells.  Imagine you are in control of your immune system and you are able to direct your immune system cells to eliminate and destroy all cancer cells within your body.

The Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD (Track 1) will give you this control and provides you with powerful imagery for building your immune system and fighting cancer cells.  Just as Professor Leslie Walker of The University of Hull - Institute of Rehabilitation, found a significant increase in natural killer cells and T cells in all patients using these techniques.  He also discovered that those given guided imagery/hypnotherapy lived on average 32 months longer than those in the control group who were not using these techniques.

Most people are unaware they have the ability to control their immune system!  Just like you have the ability to control your breathing, your heart rate, your stress levels, your blood pressure, your sex drive, your hunger, your need to go to the toilet, and so on.  All of these things can be influenced by your thoughts and feelings, and are under your control!
 

WHAT IS SELF-HYPNOSIS? 

Self Hypnosis is simply a very deep state of mental relaxation.  You remain in complete control of your body and mind and are fully aware of what is being said during this state.  You are more in touch with your inner subconscious feeling mind and imagination during this state, and your conscious critical mind that normally takes charge, takes somewhat of a back seat while still being alert of everything being said.  Self-Hypnosis is also a very healing state due to the very deep state of mental relaxation achieved.


THE MIND-BODY SELF HYPNOSIS CANCER CD REVIEWS

Dear Glen,

I have received your Cancer CD last week. Thank you. 
I've listened to it already 4 times.
It sounds great. 
For me, the first part was great and relaxing, while I had trouble with the second CD.
First two times, were nothing special (nothing was speaking to me, cancer (tumor) had nothing to say, and I could not recall any trauma to think about or feel), so it was a bit disappointing.

Well, after the third time, some strange things happened. Some "unimportant" looking things started to pop up. Not only that they came up to the surface, but they came up very emotionally. And the strangest part of it is that I would never ever even guess that they could create some emotions in me.

So, after the third time, I've decided to have a break for a few days and not listen to second CD, as almost everything looked too emotional or sad to me. 

After listening to this second CD, and what emotions and memories it woke up, I am not sure I was angry or that I am angry. It looks to me that I am sad and hurt. Or could I be angry also?

It is interesting finding out all that buried stuff (and funny and disappointing to tell you honestly - learning how unimportant garbage could create so powerful emotions and change your way of feeling, thinking and living your life?!)

 

And by the way, the voice on the CD is really good for the purpose.

Wishing you joy and blessings, Daniella


Dear Glen

 

I listened to your CD and find it very good, especially your calm and clear voice.  I will recommend it as a useful resource my for readers,  Walter Last

Walter Last has written numerous health-related journal articles, including an eight-page article, "Overcoming Cancer" and several books, including Heal Yourself, Healing Foods, and The Natural Way To Heal.  His article, "The Medicine of Dr Hamer", about Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer's discovery shock-conflict mechanism underlying cancer development, was published in NEXUS 10/05.


Anonymous 

I listened to your CD and was a little sceptical that it would help uncover repressed emotions.  I must congratulate you on an amazing CD - my whole face was literally covered in tears by the end of the second track.  A very powerful tool indeed.

 



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Guided Imagery - Clinical Studies

Imagery had been found to be very effective for the treatment of stress.  Researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio found that people with cancer who used imagery while receiving chemotherapy felt more relaxed, better prepared for their treatment and more positive about care than those who didn't use the technique.

Several studies suggest that imagery can also boost your immunity. Danish researchers found increased natural killer cell activity among ten college students who imagined that their immune systems were becoming very effective. Natural killer cells are an important part of the immune system because they can recognize and destroy virus-infected cells, tumour cells and other invaders.

In another small study, researchers at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio found that seven people who suffered from recurrent canker sores in their mouths significantly reduced the frequency of their outbreaks after they began visualizing that the sores were bathed in a soothing coating of white blood cells.

At the University of South Florida in Tampa, researchers asked 19 men and women, ages 56 to 75, who had chronic bronchitis and emphysema to rate their levels of anxiety, depression, fatigue and discomfort before and after they began using imagery. The researchers concluded that imagery significantly improved the overall quality of these people's lives.

A controlled study of fifty-five women examined the effects of imagery and relaxation on breast milk production in mothers of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. They received a twenty-minute audiotape of progressive relaxation followed by guided imagery of pleasant surroundings, milk flowing in the breasts, and the baby's warm skin against theirs. They produced more than twice as much milk as compared to those receiving only routine care.

In another study, a group of metastatic cancer patients using daily imagery for a year achieved significant improvements in NK (Natural Killer) cell activity and several other measures of immune functioning.


BOOSTING WHITE CELL COUNT - A CASE STUDY

Heidi, thirty-five, was scheduled for a round of chemotherapy for breast cancer. The treatment was to take place on Friday and she and her husband had tickets to fly to Hawaii on Saturday for a week's vacation.

As is routine, she was called into the treatment center for a blood check on the Monday before to make sure her white cell count had recovered enough from the previous treatment to allow her to qualify for the next one. To her shock, she was told that her white count was only about half what it should be and she would probably have to forego her vacation.

For four days she practiced imagery intensively several times a day, concentrating on raising her white count. She used images of the bone marrow releasing a steady, strong flow of white cells into her bloodstream and spreading throughout her body. She also imagined directing her breath into the bone marrow and thereby nourishing the stem cells (that produce the white cells) so that they could grow and release more white cells.


[The above has been adapted from
Guided Imagery & Visualizations - Holistic Online]

 





The Mind-Body Connection & Cancer: (Psycho-neuro-immunology) Explained


Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is the scientific study of the
interaction between emotions (the psyche), the neurological system
(the brain, spinal cord, and other nervous system organs), and the
immune system.

Put simply, when you are in a state of mental anxiety or stress for long
periods of time, the immune system becomes suppressed due to high
levels of the stress hormone cortisol, leading to chronic illness such
as cancer.


According to Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., associate professor in the
Department of Behavioral Science and director of the Integrative
Medicine Program at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. “There is
extensive evidence that stress suppresses cell-mediated immunity,
a component of the immune system involved in tumor surveillance.”

Psychoneuroimmunology can be more easily understood when
examining the results of studies reported at a conference on "Brain
and Immunity" held in Naples, Italy in March 1991.  Several studies
showed that Natural Killer (NK) cell activity (immune system cells
important for fighting cancer) were reduced in those who had the
highest levels of overall life stress.
 

One now famous study tested medical students during examination
time. Their NK activity was reduced during exam time but returned
to normal after exams. In another study, animals were injected with
tumor cells.  Those animals subjected to shocks over which they had
no control, developed tumors, which grew more rapidly and death
occurred more quickly.  Rats who were able to control the shock
grew tumors at a lesser rate.

Further studies, showed that people with higher loneliness scores
had lower NK cell activity. 
European researchers began to look
seriously at stress, cancer, and immunity and came up with some
general theories, based on their laboratory, animal, or human
studies. Depleting life events (such as divorce, loss of spouse,
unemployment, loneliness) were not sole predictors for disease but
the particular coping style of the person seemed to be a predictor
of development of disease.

Other researchers found that those who develop cancer, showed
exaggerated niceness, pleasantness, perfectionism, social
conformism, repression of feelings and emotions, and rigid
defensiveness and avoidance of conflicts. Their findings indicated
that suppression of feelings, especially anger, and "pathological
niceness" seemed to be predictors of cancer development. They
also found that "pathological niceness" worked as a useful defense
for these individuals as long as their personal world held together
but not when things took a turn for the worse.

One researcher identified three predictors of worsening disease
prognosis in breast cancer patients: patient's adjustment, lack of
social support, and fatigue/depression. NK cell activity was
increased when breast cancer patients felt they were getting social
support from a spouse, close friend, or the treatment staff. Breast
cancer patients who looked for social support as a way to cope with
the disease also did better.


The now famous study by Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford University
reported that metastatic breast cancer patients who were in a
support group that used self-hypnosis as well as other mind-body
techniques lived some 18 months longer than the control group
(who did not use these techniques). Another study showed that
melanoma patients who had six weeks of group therapy had higher
levels of immune enhancing cells.



The 10 Benefits of Listening to the
Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD

The Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD is designed to achieve the
following outcomes when listened to on a daily or twice daily basis:

1. Significantly Lower Stress Hormone Cortisol Levels.  High stress hormone cortisol levels are responsible for depressed immunity and
allow cancer cells to thrive.  This CD is designed to dramatically
decrease stress, tension & anxiety in the mind, the autonomic
nervous system, and the body – enabling the immune system to
recover.
 

2.
Significantly Increase Melatonin Levels within the Body. 
Melatonin is responsible for inhibiting cancer cell growth.
 
Melatonin is produced by the pituitary gland in the brain and is
released when the mind enters into a very deep state of relaxation,
sleep or meditation.  This CD will enable the listener to enter into
this very deep state of relaxation, significantly increasing levels of
melatonin in the body necessary for inhibiting the growth of
cancer cells.

3. Reduce Insomnia (when listened to prior to sleep).  Disrupted
sleep patterns affect Melatonin production, which occurs between
1 am – 3 am.  Typically those with cancer carry with them deep
hurt, grief, pain or trauma at the subconscious level, causing a
disruption in sleep patterns that affect melatonin being produced
in large enough quantities.
  Listening to this CD will not only help
release past emotional pain and hurt, it will help retrain the mind
to enter into a very deep state of relaxation, necessary for deep
sleep to occur, and for melatonin to be produced in large enough
quantities to inhibit cancer cell growth.
 

4. Mobilize Immune System Defenses.  Your subconscious mind
controls your immune system automatically, and you have the
ability to mobilize your immune system into action by using
powerful guided imagery suggestions during the state of Self
Hypnosis.  The
Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and
Science University, Portland, undertook a study to determine the
effect of hypnotic-guided imagery on immune function and
psychological parameters in patients being treated for Stage I or
II breast cancer. Psychological profiles, natural killer (NK) cell
numbers and activity were measured at baseline, after the 8-week
imagery training program and at the 3-month follow-up.
RESULTS: There were significant increases in improvement in
depression and an increase in absolute number of NK cells, but
these were not maintained at the 3-month follow-up.  This result
indicates that guided imagery should be incorporated as part of
daily routine to maintain these high levels of natural killer cell
numbers achieved using hypnotic-guided imagery.


5. Eliminate Cancer Cells within your Body.  Using powerful
guided imagery suggestions, you can direct your immune system
cells to attack and destroy weak, defenseless cancer cells. 
You have the power to direct your inner subconscious mind to
command your immune system cells to seek out and destroy
cancer cells in your body using the Mind-Body Self Hypnosis
Cancer CD daily.


6. Increase Longevity of Life.  Many studies, including those
performed by Dr David Speigel of Stanford University and
Professor Leslie Walker of the University of Hull – Institute for
Rehabilitation, have demonstrated that those with cancer using
Self Hypnosis as a tool to fight cancer, live on average 18-32
months longer that those not using these techniques.

7. Increase Seratonin (feel-good) Levels & Improve Quality of Life.  Hypnotic-guided imagery has been found in hundreds of studies
around the world to significantly lower depression, increase
seratonin and other feel-good hormone levels, and to improve
quality of life.

8. Create a feeling of Hope & Inner Peace.  Hopelessness,
helplessness and despair are common traits found in those
facing the challenge of cancer.
  This lack of “hope” or “will to live”
translates into a subconscious communication to the immune
system to slow down and to even stop functioning altogether.
 
This CD is designed to help you create a new sense of hope and
purpose in your life, to help you to find your self again and to
help you find your inner peace.

9. Create Inner Belief, Self Confidence & Life Purpose.  Studies
have demonstrated that those with cancer who have a ‘fighting
spirit’ and inner belief they can beat their cancer, survive
considerably longer than those who ‘give up’ and do not have
this inner belief.
 This CD will give you the knowledge that will
convince you that you have the power to overcome your cancer. 
It will demonstrate that cancer cells are weak cells and that you
are powerful and strong.

10. Uncover & Release Repressed Emotions.  Inner mental stress
& anxiety at a subconscious level is responsible for sustained high
levels of the stress hormone cortisol that weaken the immune
system and allow cancer cells to thrive in the first place!
  It is not
enough to just to eliminate cancer from your body.  You have to
address the core emotional/mental issues that are responsible for
sustained high internal stress and anxiety that lead to cancer.
 
This CD will guide you easily and gently into the part of you that
holds unresolved emotional pain and trauma, helping you to
express and permanently release these feelings
.




Using Guided Imagery to Fight Cancer

Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is the name given to the science
that tries to explain the link between mind and body.  It is horribly
complicated ("Most doctors don't understand it themselves", one
expert confided).  It is based on the discovery in the 1970's by an
American neurobiologist, Candace Pert, that there is a complex
system of chemical messengers - or neuropeptides - that whiz
around the body, connecting our brain to every cell in our nervous
system and immune system. 

Her research proved, for the first time, that the brain and the body
were intrinsically and chemically linked.  So, does it follow that we
can use the mind to produce more of the cells that will kill off
something physical like cancer?

Professor Leslie Walker, Britain's leading PNI scientist and director
of The University of Hull - Institute of Rehabilitation, believes that
it might be possible. 

He studied 80 women with breast cancer and taught half of them
relaxation techniques and "guided imagery" alongside conventional
treatment.  They were shown graphic images of cancer cells being
destroyed - being swept up with a shovel or being pierced with a
bayonet - then asked vividly to imagine their bodies attacking the
cancer. 

As well as coping better and enjoying better quality of life, the
women had blood test results which showed something startling:
they all had more T-cells, the type of white blood cells that fight off
invaders.  Even more exciting, 37 weeks later, the women's natural
killer (NK) cells were more active.  In fact, all 80 women had better
survival rates than average.  

Another of Professor Walker's studies, on patients with lymph cancers,
showed that, 13 years later, those given relaxation therapy and/or
hypnotherapy lived on average 32 months longer than the control
group.





 
Using the Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD, you can direct
your immune system cells to attack and destroy weak cancer cells
within your own body.




Copyright 2005 Puna Wai Ora. All rights reserved.

MIND-BODY SELF HYPNOSIS CANCER CD REFERENCE LINKS

 

 

LOW MELATONIN LEVELS & CANCER LINK (NATIONAL INSTITE OF HEALTH; BASSETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE)

 LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2005/niehs-19.htm 

http://www.bassett.org/pressreleases/prDisplay.cfm?prID=263 

 

 

ABNORMAL STRESS CORTISOL LEVELS & CANCER MORTALITY LINK (STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER) 

According to Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, "Women with advanced breast cancer who have abnormal daytime levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress, are significantly more likely to die sooner than cancer patients with normal levels of the hormone... Women with these abnormal cortisol levels had fewer immune system cells known as natural killer cells, and this reduced immunity was associated with higher mortality".  

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/faculty/david_spiegel/ 

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2000/june28/breast-628.html 

http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=41190&fid=3789 

 

 

STRESS & LOWER LEVELS OF NATURAL KILLER CELLS LINK (OHIO STATE UNIVERISITY)

 Researchers at Ohio State University found that the highly stressed women had lower levels of natural killer cells than women who reported less stress.  "Natural killer cells have an extremely important function with regard to cancer because they are capable of detecting and killing cancer cells.  Psychological interventions, such as forgiveness, have important roles in reducing stress, but also in extending survival". 

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/apastre1.htm 

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/immcan.htm 

 

 

STRESS & CANCER LINK (LOTHAR HIRNEISE) 

For Lothar Hirneise, world-renowned cancer researcher: "Cancer cannot exist without stress.  One hundred percent impossible!  There are lots of debates on types of stress - physical and pyschological (emotional) - but for a cell it doesn't matter where the stress comes from.  Every cancer patient has a sugar problem.  Insulin transports sugar to cells.  Adrenaline takes it away.  You have an excess of adrenaline initially when under stress, however, long-term stress results in adrenaline shortages.  That's what you see in cancer patients".  

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://www.nexus-book.com/html/articles.html

 

 

HYPNOSIS / GUIDED IMAGERY INCREASES T CELLS & NATURAL KILLER CELLS (THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL – INSTITUTE OF REHABILITATION) 

Professor Leslie Walker of The University of Hull – Institute of Rehabilitation, studied the effects of guided imagery/hypnotherapy on breast cancer and lymph cancer patients.  He found a significant increase in natural killer cells and T cells in all patients using these techniques.  He also discovered that those given guided imagery/hypnotherapy lived on average 32 months longer than those in the control group who were not using these techniques. 

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://www.lgwalker.com/inaugural.html

 

  

SUPPORT GROUPS USING SELF-HYPNOSIS EXTEND BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL BY 18 MONTHS (STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) 

The now famous study by Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford School of Medicine reported that metastatic breast cancer patients who were in a support group that used self-hypnosis as well as other mind-body techniques lived some 18 months longer than the control group (who did not use these techniques). 

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://med.stanford.edu/school/psychiatry/PSTreatLab/ 

 

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION INCREASES CANCER SURVIVAL (UCLA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) 

The Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine found that psychological (emotional release) intervention lowered distress and increased coping abilities in cancer patients and significantly increased cancer survival.  Six years after the study, 10 of 34 patients in the control group who were NOT given psychological intervention had died, compared to only 3 of 34 patients given psychological intervention. 

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8357293&dopt=Abstract

 

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF-HELP ACTIVITIES INCREASE CANCER SURVIVAL (ONTARIO CANCER INSTITUTE) 

The Ontario Cancer Institute / Princess Margaret Hospital conducted a 5 year “Prospective, longitudinal study of the relationship of psychological work to duration of survival in patients with metastatic cancer”.  They found a strong association between longer survival and psychological factors related to the involvement of cancer patients in psychological self-help activities.  Median survival of the 22 subjects was 2.25 times that predicted by the oncology panel (with six subjects still alive at the time of writing). 

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://www.healingjourney.ca/article.html

 

 

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION DOUBLES CANCER SURVIVAL RATE (CALIFORNIA BREAST CANER RESEARCH PROGRAM) 

 

Funded by the California Breast Cancer Research Program, Stanford Univeristy conducted a further 4 year study to confirm earlier findings that emotional expression extended cancer survival. "By 3 years from study entry, all but 2 women with more constrained anger have died--compared with 6 women, who express no constrained anger or only express short moments of it, still living at 7 years post-study entry. The mean survival time was, thus, doubled for women who do not constrain anger (3.7 years compared with 1.8)"  [California Breast Cancer Research Program] 

LINKS TO REFERENCES 

http://www.cbcrp.org/RESEARCH/PageGrant.asp?grant_id=9

 

 

MAJOR STUDY – EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION EXTENDS BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL RATES FOUR-FOLD (CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES)

 

A major recent study involving 847 US women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer were studied from 1985-1994 by the California Department of Health Services and National Cancer Institute to see whether emotional expression and a "fighting spirit" affected cancer survival rates.  At the end of the study, it was concluded that study participants had a nearly four-fold risk of dying from breast cancer if they reported low levels of both emotional expression and emotional support when compared with study participants who were able to express their emotions and received emotional support. 

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/152/10/940

 

 

OTHER USEFUL RESEARCH TO SUPPORT THE STRESS & CANCER LINK 

www.alternative-cancer-care.com/The_Cancer_Personality.html 

www.alternative-cancer-care.com/Cancer_Counseling.html