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Clinical yoga trial aim to improve quality of life at advanced stages of oral cancer

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Abstract

Background

Being a holistic approach, yoga is getting popular in the clinical scenario as alternate or integrative medicine. Aims: In the present work, we proposed that yoga could synergize the conventional treatment of oral cancer by reducing psychological distress, thus improving patients' quality of life.

Methods

Being a pilot study, we have recruited 26 patients with advanced stages of oral cancer. One group is taken as control which does not perform yoga, whereas patients in the experimental group performed yoga for 1 hour per day/5 days per week for 3 months.

Results

We evaluated the quality of life between the control and experimental group using EORTC-QLQ-H&N-35 and found that certain domains of quality of life showed significant improvement.

Conclusion

The present study revealed that yoga, if administered along with conventional treatment in an integrative manner, can help in improving the patients’ quality of life. Further studies that could relate the yoga with symptoms scale, recurrence and disease-free survival could be proved of immense importance in the management of the disease.

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Acknowledgments

Authors highly acknowledged the participation of the patients and to all of the colleagues who reviewed the present work. Authors are also acknowledged to the doc navigator© Chandigarh, India for the proofreading of manuscript.

Funding

PGIMER has provided the facilities for performing surgery and other diagnostic facilities. The work in this research is also supported by the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) provided by ICMR, New Delhi wide Award No. 3/13/JRF -2015/HRD.

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Dr. Jaimanti Bakshi recruited the patients, performed the surgery, and did the follow-up of the patients. Atul K Goyal collected and compiled the raw data, does the statistical analysis, generated the results, and drafted the manuscript.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Present study has been approved by the Dean doctoral committee (Endst No. 11241-PG-16/1Trg/9293–301) to run on a pilot basis and was submitted simultaneously for institute ethics committee clearance. The ethics committee (INT/IEC/2019/001074) approved the study for pilot trials. Photographs and videos of yoga session was also documented.

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Bakshi, J., Goyal, A.K. Clinical yoga trial aim to improve quality of life at advanced stages of oral cancer. Sport Sci Health 17, 677–685 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-021-00732-z

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