Author Nik: RitaGoldman
Name: Rita Goldman
For years women were told that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) offered as Estrogen Therapy (ET) or a combination of Estrogen and Progesterone (Hormone Therapy or HT) was the easy way to avoid any symptoms of the menopause. Women were given either natural or synthetic hormones to reduce hot flashes, headaches, moodiness, insomnia, and vaginal dryness.
One of the reasons that the number of cancer suffers has grow is the fact that many more people undergo routine screening and early detection has increased the number of sufferers. Health care workers estimate that the USA has ten million cancer sufferers, which represents a figure between 3 and 4 percent of the population. However it is expected that in the next ten years the proportion will increase as more people are getting older and more people survive cancer.
One of the reasons that the number of cancer suffers has increased is the fact that more people undergo routine screening and early detection has increased the number of sufferers. Health care workers estimate that the USA has ten million cancer sufferers, which represents a figure between three and four percent of the population.
When many people find out that they are suffering from cancer, they regard it as a death sentence. Whilst depression is understandable, giving up should not be an option. Because the more positive and upbeat you are then the more likely you are to survive cancer. One of the first things that you have to do is reconcile your hopes and dreams with your subconscious.
Negative mental health has an impact on all our lives, it increases anxiety levels, maximizes our fears, leaves us more open to pain and makes us feel inferior. All negative emotions take root from the matter present in the subconscious; we do not have a negative attitude in our consciousness according to the principals of yoga.
Some people eat to live while others live to eat and both of these examples epitomizes two extreme ways of defining nutrition. The first presupposes that people eat to satisfy their physiological needs and ward off hunger pangs, the second implies a deeper more complex relationship with food that presupposes a level of planning, anticipation and satisfaction.
One of the first things that a patient diagnosed with cancer does is find out the cancer survival rates for their cancer. Whilst this in itself is not necessarily a bad thing. It is only part of the story, any cancer patient has to learn how to survive the cancer statistics rather than learn how to survive the cancer. It is a normal human reaction to want to know whether or not your type of cancer is typically easier to cure when compared to other types. However it is not necessarily helpful because your doctor can only predict the future based on a national average which is by knows means your future.
There is one universal psychological response to cancer, despite that there are many psychological response to cancer–anxiety. Psychological harmony can be far from reach because of different feelings that occur including anger, guilt. hopelessness, low self esteem, and loss.
Cancer survival rates differ according to whatever type of cancer you have and also the stage that it is diagnosed. One of the worst cancer statistics anywhere in the world is lung cancer. Published 5-year survival for patients with lung cancer varies from 5% to 16% internationally. One of the reasons that the cancer survival rates differ so widely is the fact that the statistical information is not always in the public domain, and each individual study collects and interprets the data differently according to the abstract of the study. Data from the US indicates a 5-year survival rate of up to 16% although this figure cannot be relied on because it excludes seventy five percent of the population, so as a statistic it does not apply to the population as a whole. To make a valid comparison of mortality rates for cancer survival rates is no different from making valid statistical evidence in any other disease, the data has to have been collected and examined in the same way. ( Respiratory Medicine, Volume 100, Issue 9, Pages 1642-1646 C. Butler, K. Darragh, G. Currie, W. Anderson, Respiratory Medicine, Volume 100, Issue 9, Pages 1642-1646). Being frightened by statistics or even worse believing statistics can affect how you survive or not your cancer.
In 2004 Dr. Christina Liossi, studied eighty children in four groups of twenty in Wales. Two of the groups were treated by hypnosis and anesthetic before undergoing surgical cancer procedures, and two control groups had anesthetic alone. All of the eighty children were aged between six and sixteen. Forty children who were treated by hypnosis were hypnotized by psychologists and were taught to self hypnotize themselves. The children were all asked to rate their pain on a naught to five basis before they were subjected to any treatment, then they were asked to rate it again afterward.