Mesothelioma patients can fight stress with Mind-body medicine

Mind-body medicine can assist cancer treatments for mesothelioma patients today by boosting their spirit and fighting stress.

In the 1920s, Walter Cannon's work revealed the direct relationship between stress and neuroendocrine responses in animals. Coining the phrase "fight or flight," Cannon described the primitive reflexes of sympathetic and adrenal activation in response to perceived danger and other environmental pressures (e.g., cold, heat).

Hans Selye further defined the deleterious effects of stress and distress on health. At the same time, technological advances in medicine that could identify specific pathological changes, and new discoveries in pharmaceuticals, were occurring at a very rapid pace.

The disease-based model, the search for a specific pathology and the identification of external cures, were paramount -- even in psychiatry.

This information is courtesy of the National Institutes of Health

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