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Negative Thoughts and Cancer Cure

All aspects of psychotherapy work on strengthening the ego and making us feel more positive and confident. A good self esteem is important because when we have it, we are more capable of bouncing back from lifes knocks. When hypnosis affects the self esteem, it is geared to addressing personal issues and it addresses the subconscious mind and why we feel that worthless and do not need or deserve to be loved and appreciated.

One of the first things that a patient diagnosed with cancer does is find out the cancer survival rates for their cancer. There is nothing wrong with that. It is only part of the story, any cancer patient has to learn how to survive the cancer statistics rather than learn how to survive the cancer. It is a normal human reaction to want to know whether or not your type of cancer is typically easier to cure when compared to other types. However it is not necessarily helpful because your doctor can only predict the future based on a national average which is by knows means your future.

There are differences in the length of life expectancy figures after diagnosis of cancer. In general countries tend not to discuss the results as life expectancy because causal factors such as the environment and lifestyle have an impact on the results. Life styles are important indicators of general health but the US fares badly in lifestyle comparisons when compared to other countries partly because of their obesity levels across all ages and races. US health authorities prefer to look at the statistical figures as cancer survival statistics because there they look better.

Cancer survival rates varies according to whatever type of cancer you have and also the stage that it is diagnosed. One of the worst cancer statistics anywhere in the world is lung cancer. Published 5-year survival for patients with lung cancer varies from 5% to 16% internationally. One of the reasons that the cancer survival rates differ so widely is the fact that the statistical information is not always in the public domain, and each individual study collects and interprets the data differently according to the abstract of the study. In other words each cancer statistic is as unique as you are. Data from the US indicates a 5-year survival rate of up to 16% although this figure cannot be relied on because it excludes seventy five percent of the population, so as a statistic it does not apply to the population as a whole. To make a real comparison of mortality rates for cancer survival rates is no different from making valid statistical evidence in any other disease, the data has to have been collected and examined in the same way. ( Respiratory Medicine, Volume 100, Issue 9, Pages 1642-1646 C. Butler, K. Darragh, G. Currie, W. Anderson, Respiratory Medicine, Volume 100, Issue 9, Pages 1642-1646). Being frightened by statistics or even worse believing statistics can affect how you survive or not your cancer.