Meditation and Cancer

There is considerable evidence that meditation can help prevent cancer, fight with its symptoms or the side effects of regular cancer treatment, and increase the chances of cancer survival.

Cancer Prevention:
Surveys in the United States have shown meditation can significantly reduce the risk of cancer.More recently, researchers are beginning to explain the process by which meditation may help prevent cancer. One of the ways meditation seems to prevent cancer is by reducing the level of oxidative stress – a process in which reactive oxygen species react with the lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids and cause damage to our cells. There is considerable evidence that oxidative stress is one of the causes of aging and a number of age related diseases including cancer.

Controlling or Curing Cancer:

Recent research is beginning to show that meditation helps boost the immune functions in cancer patients, increases cancer survival rates and helps control cancer. researchers have all found in separate studies that meditation and other mind-body interventions increase survival rates in cancer patients. All have been successful in curing hundreds of cancer patients by adding visualization to the regular treatment.