A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Quality of Life in Older Breast Cancer Patients

Nidich, Sanford; Fields, Jeremy Z.; Rainforth, Maxwell; Pomerantz, R. W.; Cella, David; Kristeller, Jean L.; Salerno, John W.; Schneider, Robert

doi:10.1177/1534735409343000

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“…Finally, positive results on quality of life and other symptoms in breast cancer patients have been found using complementary and alternative medicine treatments such as yoga,[47] acupuncture,[48] and meditation. [49]…”

Section: The Breast Cancer Symptom Cluster: Prevalence and Phenomenologymentioning

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The symptom cluster of sleep, fatigue and depressive symptoms in breast cancer patients: severity of the problem and treatment options

Fiorentino

Rissling

Liu

et al. 2011

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Insomnia is a significant problem in breast cancer patients, affecting between 20% to 70% of newly diagnosed or recently treated cancer patients. Pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression are also common conditions in breast cancer and often co-occur with insomnia in symptom clusters, exacerbating one another, and decreasing quality of life (QOL). There have been no clinical trials of drugs for sleep in cancer. Cognitive behavioral psychotherapies on the other hand, have shown some of the most positive results in alleviating the distressing symptoms that often accompany the breast cancer experience, but even these studies have not targeted the symptom cluster. Pharmacological as well as non-pharmacological treatments need to be explored. It might be that a combined pharmacological and behavioral treatment is most efficacious. In short, substantially more research is needed to fully understand and treat the symptom cluster of insomnia, fatigue, pain, depression and anxiety in breast cancer.

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Section: The Breast Cancer Symptom Cluster: Prevalence and Phenomenologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The symptom cluster of sleep, fatigue and depressive symptoms in breast cancer patients: severity of the problem and treatment options

Fiorentino

Rissling

Liu

et al. 2011

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

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“…The TM program may decrease the risk for developing hypertension in young adults [14]. TM also reduced resting BP among adolescent African Americans with high normal BP (with a resting SBP ≥85th and ≤95th percentile) over two months, with larger declines than those in a health education control group, demonstrated during both at rest and during acute laboratory stressors [11].…”

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Current Perspectives on the Use of Meditation to Reduce Blood Pressure

Goldstein

Xie

Hughes

2012

International Journal of Hypertension

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Meditation techniques are increasingly popular practices that may be useful in preventing or reducing elevated blood pressure. We reviewed landmark studies and recent literature concerning the use of meditation for reducing blood pressure in pre-hypertensive and hypertensive individuals. We sought to highlight underlying assumptions, identify strengths and weaknesses of the research, and suggest avenues for further research, reporting of results, and dissemination of findings. Meditation techniques appear to produce small yet meaningful reductions in blood pressure either as monotherapy or in conjunction with traditional pharmacotherapy. Transcendental meditation and mindfulness-based stress reduction may produce clinically significant reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. More randomized clinical trials are necessary before strong recommendations regarding the use of meditation for high BP can be made.

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“…Reduced levels of depression and depressive symptoms were present in all studies investigating the psychosocial benefits of yoga therapy . Chen et al reported a strong correlation ( P = 0.001) regarding the improvement of depression levels over time for both cohorts.…”

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Salute to the sun: a new dawn in yoga therapy for breast cancer

Galliford

Robinson²,

Bridge

et al. 2017

J Med Radiat Sci

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IntroductionInterest in the application of yoga for health benefits in western medicine is growing rapidly, with a significant rise in publications. The purpose of this systematic review is to determine whether the inclusion of yoga therapy to the treatment of breast cancer can improve the patient's physical and psychosocial quality of life (QoL).MethodsA search of peer reviewed journal articles published between January 2009 and July 2014 was conducted. Studies were included if they had more than 15 study participants, included interventions such as mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) or yoga therapy with or without comparison groups and had stated physical or psychological outcomes.ResultsScreening identified 38 appropriate articles. The most reported psychosocial benefits of yoga therapy were anxiety, emotional and social functioning, stress, depression and global QoL. The most reported physical benefits of yoga therapy were improved salivary cortisol readings, sleep quality and lymphocyte apoptosis. Benefits in these areas were linked strongly with the yoga interventions, in addition to significant improvement in overall QoL.ConclusionThe evidence supports the use of yoga therapy to improve the physical and psychosocial QoL for breast cancer patients with a range of benefits relevant to radiation therapy. Future studies are recommended to confirm these benefits. Evidence‐based recommendations for implementation of a yoga therapy programme have been derived and included within this review. Long‐term follow‐up is necessary with these programmes to assess the efficacy of the yoga intervention in terms of sustainability and patient outcomes.

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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Quality of Life in Older Breast Cancer Patients

Cited by 56 publications

References 73 publications

The symptom cluster of sleep, fatigue and depressive symptoms in breast cancer patients: severity of the problem and treatment options

The symptom cluster of sleep, fatigue and depressive symptoms in breast cancer patients: severity of the problem and treatment options

Current Perspectives on the Use of Meditation to Reduce Blood Pressure

Salute to the sun: a new dawn in yoga therapy for breast cancer

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