Oncology Study Sheds New Insight On Longevity

An article published in Future Oncology reveals that a patient’s relationship with his or her family and doctor may have a greater impact on their rate of survival than does the type of treatment they receive.
An article published on Medscape explains:

Fifteen patients with advanced lung or pancreatic cancer attributed their longevity to their relationships with their doctor and their family, rather than the type of treatment they received.
[…] Although most of the patients in this small cohort used some form of complementary and alternative medicine, they did not consider it to be a main cause of their survival. Rather, the main recurrent themes in most of the interviews were patient–doctor communication, family support, and the patient’s proactive attitude in accounting for their remarkable survival.

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