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Effects of Yoga on the Quality of Life in Cancer Patients

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Quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional concept that includes physical, psychological, and social aspects which can be regarded as a broad term related to the patient’s subjective evaluation of life as a whole. Patients with cancer often have to deal with symptoms and treatment-related side effects, which have ­substantial impact on their QoL. Yoga, as a main component of the mindfulness-based stress reduction and one of the most commonly utilized complementary and alternative medicine therapies, has been studied for its feasibility and effects for cancer patients. Increasing evidence indicates that yoga may be beneficial for ­people with cancer in improvements of psychological health and QoL. Nevertheless, given different methodologies of the studies, the variety of QoL measures employed, duration of the interventions, and types of yoga, the effects of yoga on QoL in cancer patients are inconclusive. The exact mechanism of yoga or ­mindfulness-based stress reduction on QoL is not clear. The researchers have proposed and investigated some plausible mechanisms, such as relaxation response, enhancing body awareness, psycho-neuro immunological aspect, and melatonin production. This chapter discusses the evidence for the effectiveness (including safety and adverse effects) of yoga for QoL of cancer patients, includes the underlying mechanisms of yoga on QoL.

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Lin, KY., Tsauo, JY. (2013). Effects of Yoga on the Quality of Life in Cancer Patients. In: Cho, W. (eds) Evidence-based Non-pharmacological Therapies for Palliative Cancer Care. Evidence-based Anticancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5833-9_6

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