Open AccessEffect of yoga on sleep quality and neuroendocrine immune response in metastatic breast cancer patients
Author(s) -
Raghavendra Rao,
H. S. Vadiraja,
R. Nagaratna,
KS Gopinath,
Shekhar Patil,
Ravi B Diwakar,
HP Shahsidhara,
BS Ajaikumar,
HR Nagendra
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_102_17
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , metastatic breast cancer , pittsburgh sleep quality index , oncology , perceived stress scale , cancer , physical therapy , insomnia , sleep quality , psychiatry , stress (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy
Studies have shown that distress and accompanying neuroendocrine stress responses as important predictor of survival in advanced breast cancer patients. Some psychotherapeutic intervention studies have shown have modulation of neuroendocrine-immune responses in advanced breast cancer patients. In this study, we evaluate the effects of yoga on perceived stress, sleep, diurnal cortisol, and natural killer (NK) cell counts in patients with metastatic cancer.