Writing eases stress of cancer

NEW
YORK: The simple enactment of authorship down their deepest feelings can assist cancer
patients better their quality of life, according to a new study. A squad of research workers in the
United States have establish that malignant neoplastic disease patients who show their fearfulnesses through
writing can undergo alterations in ideas about their illness, The
Oncologist diary reported. According to take researcher
Nancy Lewis Henry Morgan of Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre, "Previous research have
suggested that expressive authorship may heighten physical and psychological
well-being. "But most of those
studies involved three to five authorship Sessions that were conducted in a
controlled setting. Here, we establish that just one authorship session in a busy
cancer clinic where the patients are frequently interrupted can still have got a
positive impact on patients." Lewis Henry Morgan and her co-workers came
to the decision after a research on a grouping of over 70 patients waiting in a
clinic at a malignant neoplastic disease Centre in American Capital from July to November 2006. It included a pre-writing
survey, just 20 proceedings of expressive writing, a post-writing survey, and an
optional follow-up study that was completed by telephone set three hebdomads later.