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Monarch - Hope Lives! Newsletter
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Relation to Quality of Life, Mood, Symptoms of Stress, and Immune Parameters in Breast and Prostate Cancer Outpatients
This study investigated the relationships between a mindfulness-based stress reduction meditation program for early stage breast and prostate cancer patients and quality of life, mood states, stress symptoms, lymphocyte counts, and cytokine production.
By Linda E. Carlson, PhD, Michael Speca, PsyD, Kamala D. Patel, PhD and Eileen Goodey, MSW
Breast cancer survivors reap the rewards of fitness
Women who have undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer have numerous benefits to reap from exercise, including stronger immune systems, reduced fatigue and better body image, two new studies show.
By Alyssa Schwartz
Beating The Odds
Finely tuned diagnoses and targeted drugs are creating optimism about surviving breast cancer.
By Katherine Hobson
New developments with Her-2 positive diagnoses
Primrose oil component cuts levels of cancer-causing gene Her-2/neu
By Elizabeth Crown, Northwestern University