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Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research
To cope with cancer and its treatment-related side effects and toxicities, people are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Consequently, integrative oncology, which combines conventional therapies and evidence-based CAM practices, is an emerging discipline in cancer care....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29343927 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoy.IJOY_42_17 |
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author | Agarwal, Ram P Maroko-Afek, Adi |
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description | To cope with cancer and its treatment-related side effects and toxicities, people are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Consequently, integrative oncology, which combines conventional therapies and evidence-based CAM practices, is an emerging discipline in cancer care. The use of yoga as a CAM is proving to be beneficial and increasingly gaining popularity. An electronic database search (PubMed), through December 15, 2016, revealed 138 relevant clinical trials (single-armed, nonrandomized, and randomized controlled trials) on the use of yoga in cancer patients. A total of 10,660 cancer patients from 20 countries were recruited in these studies. Regardless of some methodological deficiencies, most of the studies reported that yoga improved the physical and psychological symptoms, quality of life, and markers of immunity of the patients, providing a strong support for yoga's integration into conventional cancer care. This review article presents the published clinical research on the prevalence of yoga's use in cancer patients so that oncologists, researchers, and the patients are aware of the evidence supporting the use of this relatively safe modality in cancer care. |
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spelling | pubmed-57691952018-01-17 Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research Agarwal, Ram P Maroko-Afek, Adi Int J Yoga Invited Review To cope with cancer and its treatment-related side effects and toxicities, people are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Consequently, integrative oncology, which combines conventional therapies and evidence-based CAM practices, is an emerging discipline in cancer care. The use of yoga as a CAM is proving to be beneficial and increasingly gaining popularity. An electronic database search (PubMed), through December 15, 2016, revealed 138 relevant clinical trials (single-armed, nonrandomized, and randomized controlled trials) on the use of yoga in cancer patients. A total of 10,660 cancer patients from 20 countries were recruited in these studies. Regardless of some methodological deficiencies, most of the studies reported that yoga improved the physical and psychological symptoms, quality of life, and markers of immunity of the patients, providing a strong support for yoga's integration into conventional cancer care. This review article presents the published clinical research on the prevalence of yoga's use in cancer patients so that oncologists, researchers, and the patients are aware of the evidence supporting the use of this relatively safe modality in cancer care. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5769195/ /pubmed/29343927 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoy.IJOY_42_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 International Journal of Yoga http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Invited Review Agarwal, Ram P Maroko-Afek, Adi Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research |
title | Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research |
title_full | Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research |
title_fullStr | Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research |
title_full_unstemmed | Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research |
title_short | Yoga into Cancer Care: A Review of the Evidence-based Research |
title_sort | yoga into cancer care: a review of the evidence-based research |
topic | Invited Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29343927 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoy.IJOY_42_17 |
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