Diagnosis: Cancer. After the shock was overcome, it was discovered Patricia the power of your Psyche. The severity of disease has changed your life today positively. Sounds strange? Here, Patricia’s story is not an isolated case.
Hello, Life! A serious illness can act as a Wake-up call
“To regulate their Affairs,” said the doctor, Patricia. Three months earlier, the then-32-year-old elementary school teacher had been removed, all of the metastasis affected lymph nodes from the armpit. Now the oncologist had discovered once again the cancer cells in the tissue of the surgical scar. The prognosis for the young mother: pretty bad.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) died in the year 2018, worldwide, an estimated 9.6 million people to cancer. Especially in poor countries, the disease usually ends fatally.
Patricia has survived their disease. And not only that: If she looks back, she has the impression that they had their life positively, in your misfortune manoeuvred.
In fact, according to the WHO, 30 to 50 percent of all cancers could be avoided. Risk number one: tobacco. It alcohol and Obesity follow. The organization is called, also, infections, pollution, and ionizing radiation as carcinogenic.
Can trigger the soul cancer?
Patricia called something else: the Psyche. “With my attitude to life I have created for me this fate is also a part of myself,” she says. You will have to measure little value, was pessimistic and anxious. “A thought was always that eventually something Bad would happen.”
Cancer as a self-fulfilling prophecy? Can serve diseases of a troubled Psyche as a breeding ground for cancer? “That is, from a scientific viewpoint an extremely interesting question,” says Professor Christian Albus, head of the clinic and polyclinic for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the University hospital of Cologne.
The question of whether and to what extent the Psyche of the cancer to thrive, had been discussed in the psychosomatic research-intensive. “In the case evidence. However, this hypothesis of a scientific Review does not stand up to,” explained Albus. Studies with larger groups have shown that the group of cancer patients before the onset of the disease, the life is not fundamentally a negative to stand as a people without a future cancer.
However, when it comes to dealing with the disease, it is of great importance, whether the Patient is looking for a debt for its cancer in yourself. “Some of them are tormented by severe feelings of guilt, because they are of the opinion that cancer should have not to train, if your settings would have to live differently,” says Albus.
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At the beginning of the shock was
Patricia came to a different conclusion: “If I have something to do with the fact that I got cancer, then I can turn back to it.” You term the severity of illness as an opportunity to check all of the settings to life and change. Until you came to this point, it took several years.
Years, the the young mother spent in a state of shock. She felt unable to participate in life, from the fear of the lurking death tied. Chemotherapy or radiation treatment refused. “I thought I was going to die, anyway.” What, therefore, still therapies with drastic side-effects? It is important to stress, however, important to that they are opposed to these methods of treatment do not generally. “I don’t know if I would do that again today.”
Grew up with the assumption that psychological therapies are only something for Crazy people, it was for a long is not an Option for the young mother to seek psychological assistance. The pregnancy with her second child caused you rigid from the shock.
Patricia started therapy and went to the origins of your always anxious system. You learned to talk about painful experiences such as the stillbirth of their first child and the associated feelings of guilt. You have won and self-esteem, she says.
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Mental condition may have to do from a scientific point of view, hardly something with a cancer, for in the course of the disease, the mental state of the patient, however, is very important, says psycho-oncologist Albus. “There is a statistically-significant relationship between long-term Depression and the likelihood that the disease takes an unfavorable course.”
However, the question of the chicken and the Egg here – which came first? “Are people with a worse course of depressive and / or the Depression have a poorer outcome?” The had not yet been answered conclusively, says Albus.
Despite the extremely poor prognosis, Patricia lives. And it’s doing well. The studies that you regularly perform, you as a healthy. “Someday is not a grown-up in me the certainty that the cancer will come back. Because I have him deprived of the fertile soil.”
Anyone who is seriously ill, needs support. Either of loved one or a therapist
“The circumstances to accept, and turn around. Or die.”
Patricia now works not only as a teacher, she has also founded a private company: “family ties”. There, she offers families, children and youth in difficult life situations, advice and support. The experiences she has made during the serious illness and subsequent therapy, so Patricia can help her: “Without the cancer I would not be where I am now,”
Ultimately, the cancer, for the Patricia was a Wake-up call, a catalyst on the path to a better life. This is just an isolated case? Not at all! “It is even frequently,” says Christian Albus. Many people found through the confrontation with a serious illness your life concept to the test. “I have set the right priorities? What is really important?” These questions back into the centre, says Albus.
To answer you, should not make any Patient a psychotherapy. At least half of all cancer patients cope with the disease alone, with the help of one’s own social network, according to Professor Christian Albus. But who needs professional assistance, you can find a psycho-oncologist.
Patricia swears, however, to the help of good therapists. Because they suspected the origin of the disease in their negative attitudes towards life, it is only logical there, too. “I am quite sure that any serious illness also contains a message. My task was, in the circumstances to accept, and turn around. Or die.”
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Cancer avoid rather than cureThe fate in the Hand
A cancer diagnosis always hits hard and unexpectedly. Almost half of all cancer could be cases avoid. Alone, about every fifth tumour, Smoking is to blame. The toxic tobacco smoke causes not only lung cancer but also many other tumor types. Smoking is the most common self is not indebted to reason for cancer – but the only one.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureThick be fatal can be
Place two of the Cancer-causing agents: Obesity. Debt increased insulin levels. You increase bubbles to the risk for almost all types of cancer, particularly for renal, biliary and esophageal cancer. Obese women are also more female sex hormones in the fatty tissue, and fall ill as a result is easier on the uterus and breast cancer.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureGet off the couch!
People hardly move, get the most frequently cancer. Long-term studies show that Sport prevents tumors. Because physical activity lowers insulin levels and prevents by the way, are the thick. And it needs to be a high-performance sports: going for a walk or a bike ride, make a big difference.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureCancer benefit!
Alcohol is carcinogenic. He mainly promotes tumors of the oral cavity, the pharyngeal region and the esophagus. Especially dangerous is the combination of Smoking and alcohol is this: Thereby increasing his risk of cancer a hundred-fold. However, a glass of wine per day is healthy, because it supports the cardiovascular System. Everything that goes beyond that should be avoided.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureUnhealthy animal
Red meat may trigger bowel cancer. The exact reason is still unclear, long-term studies show a clear connection. Especially dangerous also, pig meat is beef, and, to a lesser extent. The cancer risk is increasing due to the consumption of about one and a half times. Fish prevents against cancer.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureDanger from the charcoal grill?
When grilling meat cancer-causing substances, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In animals, these chemical Compounds trigger tumors. In long-term studies on people that’s not been proven yet. May be the consumption of meat is simply the Evil, not the method of preparation.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureFast food avoid
A diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables and fiber cancer preventing substances. In long-term studies, researchers have seen, however, that a healthy diet has less impact on cancer risk than was originally assumed: it reduces the risk only slightly, to a maximum of ten percent.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureA lot of sun is detrimental to a lot of
UV radiation in sunlight penetrates to the genome and changes it. The result is that black or white skin cancer. Sunscreen protects against sunburn – but as soon as the skin tans, it has gotten too much radiation.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureCancer by modern medicine
X-ray radiation damages the genetic material. In the case of an ordinary x-Ray exposure is low. Quite different in the case of a computed tomography: their you should take only if good reasons exist. A nuclear magnetic resonance tomography, however, is harmless. By the way: Also in the case of air travel, you are exposed to carcinogenic radiation.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureCancer due to infections
Human papilloma viruses can cause cervical cancer. Hepatitis B and C viruses can liver cells to Degenerate. The bacterium Helicobacter pylori (photo) nests in the stomach and can cause stomach cancer. Against many of the pathogens can be vaccinated, against Helicobacter pylori antibiotics help.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureBetter than their reputation
The Anti-Baby-pill increases the risk slightly of developing breast cancer. But at the same time lowers the risk for ovarian cancer. Overall, the pill protects more than it harms, at least in terms of cancer.
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Cancer avoid rather than cureA true stroke of fate
But also, if you do everything right, and very much against cancer, it is immune to never. Half of all cancer cases, the wrong genes are solely to blame – or simply the age. Especially brain tumors often develop without Intervention from the outside.