Finding this fact interesting, the researchers decided to test whether a brain relaxed in this manner would then turn all of a cancer patient's bodily resources to health instead of worrying about pending death. The cancer patients were asked to read the book three hours a day, five days a week. No other treatment was given during the study, and a mortality rate of over eighty percent was expected at the end of the first year of the three-year test period. After reading this study, I realized the significance of the role of the mind and emotions in the healing process. Research has shown that surgical removal of many forms of cancer does not prolong survival.
Surgery places tremendous stress on the body that causes significant immune system depression.
Also, many cancer cells often remain inside the patient post-surgery, which then necessitates chemo or radiation therapy. It is also interesting to note that lung patients who receive radiation therapy have a mortality rate that is 21 percent higher than those who don't receive this treatment. The positive side to this, though, is that there are specific nutrients that have been shown to stave off the destructive effects of radiation therapy. Ginseng has been shown to increase your chances of surviving radiation therapy. Antioxidants reduce the damage that can be caused as a result of the increase in free radicals that this treatment causes.