Feeling and Healing: Effects of Stress and Support on Cancer Patients

This talk will review recent research on means of handling the inevitable stress of cancer that are most effective. This includes learning to express rather than suppress the emotions that accompany the illness, finding good social support, improve communication with loved ones and doctors, and facing ones fears directly. Evidence that the body's stress response hormone system can influence the course of the disease will be presented.

Speaker: David Spiegel, MD