http://diabetesinsider.com/religious-cancer-patient-feels-enhanced-health-study/39547
A new analysis says those cancer patients who are of religious or
spiritual nature suffers fewer physical symptoms compared to those who
are not.
The connection has been earlier too found by several other studies. However, those varied in many ways.
“When we took a closer look, we found that patients with stronger
spiritual well-being, more benign images of God (such as perceptions of a
benevolent rather than an angry or distant God), or stronger beliefs
(such as convictions that a personal God can be called upon for
assistance) reported better social health,” one of the study authors
Allen Sherman, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, said in the
news release.
Heather Jim of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, said the
cancer patients should not be pressurized to follow any spiritual or
religious beliefs even though data reveals religion or spirituality is
linked to better perceived health. She added further that cancer patient
even without following any religious or spiritual beliefs can
experience good health.
In the new study more than 44,000 people suffering from cancer were
analyzed. Higher religious or spirituality patient were found to have
overall better health.
Senior author of the analysis for both physical as well as social
health John M. Salsman said spirituality and religiousness are
multidimensional.
Salsman is presently at Wake Forest School of Medicine in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but he had conducted the study when he
was with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in
Chicago.
He said most of the religions conduct group meetings and those carry
social element too, and this may explain the link with social health.
However, he is not aware whether spirituality or religiousness causes
symptom relief.
I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Nov., 1999. Surgery and radioactive iodine followed. In Dec., 2006, I found a lump in my neck that turned cancerous. Shortly thereafter, it was found to have metastasized throughout my body and to be untreatable and inoperable. I started a clinical trial with Sutent (sunitinib) since Apr., 2007. In Nov., 2013, the tumors began growing again and I was removed from the Sutent Clinical Trial. I started a clinical trial taking of CEDIRANIB on 04/09/14.
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