Below are the best articles we could find on Cancer and anxiety.
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This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.
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Cannabis — also referred to as marijuana — is a psychoactive drug that many people use for recreational purposes and its purported medicinal benefits. But what does recent research say about it? Do the risks trump the benefits?
Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.
Reiki, a therapy in which hands are placed lightly on the body or just above it, is increasingly being used to reduce cancer-related fatigue, anxiety, nausea and pain.
“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”
Two studies used psilocybin to see if the drug could reduce depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The results were striking.
In November 2019, the American College of Sports Medicine updated its guidelines on exercise for cancer prevention, as well as guidelines on exercise to ease a number of treatment side effects, including fatigue, depression, physical functioning, and quality of life.
Mary Dawson, 72, has been living with kidney cancer now for more than a decade, which may have been avoided if it was caught earlier
A single dose of psilocybin, a compound found in “magic mushrooms,” provides long-term relief of anxiety and depression in cancer patients, a new study finds.
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Don't stop moving. Research confirms that exercising can help you not just survive but thrive during and after cancer.
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