Transcendental Meditation Helps Women with Breast Cancer

Women with breast cancer showed reduced stress and improved mental health and emotional well being after learning Transcendental Meditation, according to a new study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Integrative Cancer Therapies (vol. 8, no. 3: September 2009).

“It is wonderful that physicians now have a range of interventions to use, including Transcendental Meditation, to benefit their patients with cancer. I believe this approach should be appreciated and utilised more widely.” – Rhoda Pomerantz, MD, study co-author and chief of gerontology, Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago.

Quality of life is a major issue for women with breast cancer, and while alternative therapies are often employed to improve quality of life, few therapies if any are both as easy to use and as scientifically supported as Transcendental Meditation.