Research on the impact of yoga among cancer patients and cancer survivors
Significantly reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and fatigue measured six months after a once-per week, two-month yoga therapy program for cancer patients
Go here for summaries of research demonstrating the following outcomes in cancer patients and cancer survivors.
Mental Health, Fatigue, Sleep
Significantly greater improvements in fatigue than standard survivor care among cancer survivors (2019)
“Distress is associated with worse clinical outcomes… It is essential that the standard of care in oncology include… techniques to help patients manage the psychosocial challenges of diagnosis and treatment of cancer” (2015)
Significantly reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and fatigue measured six months after a once-per week, two-month yoga therapy program for cancer patients (2019)
Supportive for improving health, reducing fatigue and sleep disturbances, and for reducing depression and anxiety among women diagnosed with breast cancer (2017)
Improved psychological outcomes (e.g., depression, distress, anxiety) and quality of life, and improvements in sleep and fatigue among children and adults undergoing cancer treatment (2018)
Mindfulness and yoga improved sleep, quality of life and productivity, reduced conditions, and decreased use of health care resources (2017)
Substantial benefit in distress, anxiety, and depression + moderate impact on fatigue and emotional function among cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy (2018)
Positive effect on psychological and social well-being, helping to restore body-image and self-esteem, and contributing to a return to pre-diagnosis daily life among breast cancer survivors (2017)
Tibetan Yoga intervention vs stretching or usual care: Better sleep quality, both short and long-term, among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy (2017)
MBSR and MBCT significantly improved depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, quality of life and physical functioning (2015)
Large effect on fatigue in post-treatment breast cancer patients, small effect on those undergoing treatment (2019)
Non-physical mind-body practices were effective at reducing fatigue severity in patients with cancer and stem cell transplant recipients (2017)
More Benefits
“Psychosocial interventions providing stress reduction and emotional support resulted in trends toward telomere length maintenance in distressed breast cancer survivors, compared with decreases in usual care” (2014)
Statistically significant difference in overall health, depression, anxiety and gastrointestinal symptoms among patients recovering from breast cancer (2015)
Improved sleep, lowered fatigue, reduced cognitive impairment, decreased psychological distress, and decreased musculoskeletal symptoms among patients during and after cancer treatments (2018)
Improvements in anxiety, emotional and social functioning, stress, depression and global quality of life + improved salivary cortisol readings, sleep quality and lymphocyte apoptosis among breast cancer patients (2016)
Improved quality of life, flexibility, and balance in cancer survivors with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (2019)
Positive results among more than 10,000 cancer patients, with no adverse outcomes (2018)
“Yoga techniques can be easily integrated into nursing practice and have been shown to be beneficial for patients and nurses” (2016)
Online yoga had a moderate effect on depression and small effects on sleep, pain and anxiety among patients with significant symptoms (2019)
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