Dear Radiation Oncology Insider,
Would adding yoga to the treatment plans of your cancer patients improve outcomes? That's the tantalizing prospect of a new study we're featuring in the Radiation Oncology Digital Community.
Researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston worked with a large yoga research institution in Bangalore, India, to develop the study, according to an article by Associate Editor Kate Madden Yee. They assessed a group of more than 160 women with breast cancer who were receiving radiation therapy at MD Anderson; the patients were randomly assigned to a yoga protocol, a stretching protocol, or a control group that received usual care.
Patients in the yoga group had better physical functioning scores in the months after treatment, and they also had lower levels of cortisol -- a hormone related to stress. Get the rest of the details in our Insider Exclusive, brought to you before our other AuntMinnie.com members.
In addition to our featured article, click on the links below for other news in the community:
- The rising incidence of thyroid cancer may be due to "overdiagnosis" rather than an epidemic of disease.
- An MR-guided radiation therapy procedure has landed on a new list of technologies to watch in the near future.
- The rates of lung cancer death continue to decline, indicating success in the war on cancer.
- A hospital in Saudi Arabia has successfully implemented intraoperative radiation therapy for breast cancer treatment.
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