Breast cancer survivors often have more severe hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms than other women, yet they have limited treatment choices. Hormone replacement therapy, for example, is not an option for cancer survivors because it may increase their risk for disease recurrence. Therapies widely used to prevent cancer recurrence, such as tamoxifen, also tend to induce or exacerbate menopausal symptoms.
However, new research from Duke University Medical Center and Oregon Health and Science University offers an untraditional source of relief: a tailored yoga program.
"These women have suffered through the difficulties of breast cancer and are left to cope with these daily, extremely disruptive symptoms with few options for relief," said Duke assistant professor Laura Porter, Ph.D., co-author of the study presented at the International Association of Yoga Therapists Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research. "We knew that some data found yoga helped reduce hot flashes among healthy women but no>Yoga of Awareness" program on breast cancer patients. They also plan to teach the concepts to yoga instructors nationwide.
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