New cancer early detection technology is becoming available without a holistic healthcare industry approach that allows patients the opportunity and support services necessary to change their lifestyle for improving their longevity through better cancer management.
Here is a mental model healthcare providers should pay attention to as they work toward helping people become aware of and manage their cancer risks:
Beliefs influence perception.
Perception structures reality.
Reality suggests possibilities.
Possibilities generate choices.
Choices initiate actions.
Actions affect outcomes.
Outcomes impact beliefs.
Awareness facilitates change.
When Alastair Cunningham, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the Ontario Cancer Institute and the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto conducted a study to see whether a psychological support could extend the lives of 66 women with metastatic breast cancer, they found no significant effect, but they noticed that seven patients who sought out healing approaches beyond the program lived significantly longer. This finding led to an in-depth study with 22 patients to determine how self-help correlated with survival.
The results: The patients who 'tended to change their whole lives in response to the diagnosis--and to work several hours a day meditating, exploring psychological work, exercise, and other self-help strategies, 'lived nearly three times longer than those who came to therapy for support but did not pursue other avenues of personal transformation. Two of these highly involved patients have had 'complete, unexpected eight-year remissions.'
Source: Sheldon Lewis, Editor, Advances in Mind-Body Medicine
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Posted by: mulberry alexa bags | December 29, 2011 at 03:36 AM