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London, Mar 23 (ANI): A new US study has found that cancer patients who write down their deepest fears about the disease experience a higher quality of life.
Nancy Morgan, a writing clinician, conducted an exercise with patients from a clinic at a cancer centre in Washington DC.
The exercise posed questions to leukaemia or lymphoma patients about how the cancer had changed them and how they felt about those changes.
Following the study, half of the participants said the exercise changed their thoughts about the illness, and younger patients, along with those recently diagnosed, derived the most benefit.
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Sounds kind of anecdotal, but I guess there are many things that we are just beginning to understand.
Writing could improve quality of life in cancer patients
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