What can the cancer patient expect from intensive meditation?
The results of treatment of 73 patients with advanced cancer who have been able to attend at least 20 sessions of intensive meditation, indicates that nearly all such patients should expect significant reduction of anxiety and depression, together with much less discomfort and pain. There is reason to expect a ten per cent chance of quite remarkable slowing of the rate of growth of the tumour, and a ten per cent chance of less marked but still significant slowing. The results indicate that patients with advanced cancer have a ten per cent chance of regression of the growth. There is a fifty per cent chance of greatly improved quality of life and for those who die, a ninety per cent chance of death with dignity.
D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D012064:Relaxation Therapy