Cancer | Yoga for Life

Yoga Research on Cancer

There has been a wealth of research into how yoga can benefit cancer patients, to ease the symptoms of chemotherapy, help patients in both recovery and paliative care. Here is a selection of some of the best research available.

Yoga may help patients with anxiety and depression in patients undergoing treatment for cancer

Yoga can improve stress/distress during treatment and post-treatment disturbances in sleep and cognition

Yoga improves sleep in patients with advanced breast cancer

Yoga alleviates shoulder and arm pain in patients with breast cancer

Yoga helps ease symptoms of women with metastatic breast cancer

Yoga is considered as an alternative therapy for relieving fatigue in breast cancer patients

Yoga therapy improves the physical and psychosocial quality of life for breast cancer patients

Yoga improves wellbeing, increased awareness of the physical body, improved physical, mental and social functioning in patients with breast cancer-related lymphoedema

Yoga recommended as a psychotherapeutic intervention in breast cancer patients undergoing conventional treatment

Yoga reduces overall fatigue and the interference of fatigue in everyday life for breast cancer patients

Yoga could significantly reduce body fatigue, cognitive fatigue, thus reduce the overall fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy