With the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, the individual gains a new perspective on his or her problems. The individual makes a decision to alter behavior, to be a different kind of person. Physical processes in the body respond to the feelings of hope and the renewed desire to live, creating a reinforcing cycle with the new mental state. They mentioned that, indeed, if expectations contribute to outcomes, then these social beliefs are having a very negative effect. To help patients counterbalance society's negative beliefs about cancer with positive counterparts, they also offered a set of positive beliefs which are backed up and justified by modern research.
Cancer is something that strikes from without and there is no hope of controlling it.
Medical treatment is drastic and ineffective, and frequently has many side-effects. Positive Beliefs Cancer is a disease that may not be fatal. The body's own defenses are the mortal enemy of cancer, however it is caused. Research in the new science of psychoneuroimmunology shows that the immune system is affected by various attitudes and emotional reactions in the human body. For example, the endocrine system weakens when there is a dominance of repressed, bottled up danger emotions such as pain, anger, and fear.