Evidence for the Role of Mindfulness in Cancer: Benefits and Techniques

Mindfulness is being used increasingly in various aspects of cancer management. Benefits of mindfulness practices are being observed to manage the adverse effects of treatment, symptoms from cancer progression, and the cost-effectiveness compared to conventional contemporary management strategies. I...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Ria, Sharma, Kirti, Potters, Louis, Wernicke, A. Gabriella, Parashar, Bhupesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6623989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312555
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4629
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description Mindfulness is being used increasingly in various aspects of cancer management. Benefits of mindfulness practices are being observed to manage the adverse effects of treatment, symptoms from cancer progression, and the cost-effectiveness compared to conventional contemporary management strategies. In this review article, we present clinical trial data showing the benefits of mindfulness in various aspects of cancer management as well as techniques that have been commonly used in this practice.
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spelling pubmed-66239892019-07-16 Evidence for the Role of Mindfulness in Cancer: Benefits and Techniques Mehta, Ria Sharma, Kirti Potters, Louis Wernicke, A. Gabriella Parashar, Bhupesh Cureus Psychology Mindfulness is being used increasingly in various aspects of cancer management. Benefits of mindfulness practices are being observed to manage the adverse effects of treatment, symptoms from cancer progression, and the cost-effectiveness compared to conventional contemporary management strategies. In this review article, we present clinical trial data showing the benefits of mindfulness in various aspects of cancer management as well as techniques that have been commonly used in this practice. Cureus 2019-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6623989/ /pubmed/31312555 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4629 Text en Copyright © 2019, Mehta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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