Worldwide, medical hypnosis is being increasingly accepted to ease acute and chronic pain arising from burns, cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis and reduction of anxiety associated with surgery.
What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a state of increased suggestibility with constriction of peripheral awareness and increased focal concentration on task at hand. Heightened suggestibility is an essential characteristic in hypnosis.
Hypnosis is like a meditative technique that encourages inner search and the…
My cancer could have been caught earlier if I had been alerted about spotting between periods, heavy periods and watery blood between periods as the main symptoms of womb cancer,” she says. But when she asked NHS Choices whether there should be mention of womb cancer on the menopause pages, she received the following reply: “The problem with adding a warning about womb cancer to the menopause pages is that it may cause unnecessary panic.”
And this, says Widschwendter, is the nub of the problem. Womb cancer in women as young as Olan-George is extremely rare; it is slightly more common in women of Kershaw’s age. “It is about numbers,” he concedes. “If you had 1,000 women presenting with some sort of menstrual abnormality, you would need to do a huge amount of unnecessary diagnostic testing to pick up one case of cancer in a woman in her 20s.”
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/21/womb-cancer-fourth-most-common-women
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