Survival for the intervention group averaged 36.3 months compared with 18.9 months for the control. Interventions for side effects. Such aversive side effects are due to conditioned learning and seems especially predicted in patients with high anxiety or general distress. Pain management methods. Bone marrow aspirations and lumbar punctures are routine but highly painful diagnostic procedures.
Counselors can provide pain management through biofeedback, hypnosis.
Expanding one's services to aid cancer patients is well within the reach of anyone's current practice. In addition to these skills possessed by any successful counselor, detailed descriptions of structured procedures for cancer are available. Gordon et al. Best Good Fair Poor Dick Suinn Dept. of Psychology Colorado State Univ Ft. Although every effort is made to present accurate information, security is imperfect and unintended errors or mischievous material may be present.