Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D. at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre says research has already demonstrated how yoga can help improve patient outcomes but hasn’t become a standard of care. Many doctors have found yoga helps decrease negative health side effects such as high blood pressure and fatigue and helps promote a healthy mental well-being but there hasn’t been a conclusive study on the effects of the exercise.
Cohen has been granted $4.5 million for a clinical trial to discover the effects of yoga on breast cancer patients.
“This clinical trial will allow us to definitively determine the benefit of incorporating yoga into a treatment plan for women with breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy,” he says.
Source: Cancerwise
