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19 JUNE 2023 ISSUE 425
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Yoga can help cancer recovery
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Cancer patients who practise YOCAS yoga can benefit from reduced levels of inflammation – helping their road to recovery and even preventing cancer returning. The finding comes from new research led by the University of Rochester Medical Centre in the US, published Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Eligible participants were cancer survivors with insomnia. For the study, more than 500 people took part in a randomised control trial. All had
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at the recent meeting of the American
■ YOCAS yoga significantly reduced inflammation
received cancer treatment between two months and five years earlier. They were randomised to
Survivorship Care Plans initiative
the four-week period and checked
and involving recommendation-
for levels of inflammation.
do either the Yoga for Cancer
based health education.
Those who took up the YOCAS
Survivors programme (YOCAS),
Both groups took part
yoga had “significantly lower levels
which includes gentle Hatha and
in two 75-minute sessions
of pro-inflammatory markers,”
restorative yoga, or a placebo
each week for a month.
when compared with the group attending education classes.
a series of blood tests throughout
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