Yoga: A mentor for breast cancer patients

A new study in the United States shows that for breast cancer survivors, frequent yoga practice can significantly reduce craze (menopausal symptoms in women, paroxysmal skin heat) and various signs of menopause.

Dr. Laura Porter from Duke University, a famous university in the United States, said in a press conference: In the past, through research, we have known that yoga can help healthy women reduce the number (frequency) of craze, but no one has studied its possible effect on breast cancer patients.

Survivors of breast cancer are not suitable for treatment with hormone replacement therapy due to physical reasons. Other treatments for breast cancer, such as tamoxifen (an antiestrogen),"are likely to induce and exacerbate the signs of menopause," as Laura Porter and her colleagues, including from the University of Health Science in Oregon, have shown in their study.

(Editor in charge: Teng Yun)