A Study on Spontaneous Regression of Cancers : the Conditions of Existential Shift(Symposium/New Perspective of Psycho- oncology)

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  • Nagata Katsutaro
    Health Administration Center and Psychosomatic Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine
  • Hasegawa Takuya
    Health Administration Center and Psychosomatic Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine
  • Okano Kan
    Health Administration Center and Psychosomatic Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine
  • Otsuki Chika
    Health Administration Center and Psychosomatic Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine
  • Hirokado Yasumasa
    Health Administration Center and Psychosomatic Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine
  • Aoyama Yukio
    Toho University School of Medicine Ohashi Hospital

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  • がんの自然退縮に関する研究 : 実存的転換の条件(シンポジウム/サイコオントロジーの新たな展開)(第44回日本心身医学会総会)
  • がんの自然退縮に関する研究--実存的転換の条件
  • ガン ノ シゼンタイシュク ニ カンスル ケンキュウ ジツゾンテキ テンカン ノ ジョウケン

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Twenty-eight terminally ill cancer patients, whose prognoses were diagnosed poor by oncology specialists, were treated comprehensively by complementary agents and logotherapeutic approaches. The effects were evaluated retrospectively. They were evaluated subjectively by a QOL questionnaire and objectively by urine 17-KS-S (abbreviated to S), 17-OHCS (OH) and S/OH ratio. Supplementary agents of Juzentaihoto (Shi-Quan-Da-Bu-Tang), Korean red ginseng and coenzyme Q 10 were administered and the psychotherapy based on logotherapy (existential analysis) was performed. Prolongation of lives and improvement of QOL were observed (less than 6 months to 18 months). Their lower S and S/OH ratio increased. Among them 6 cases showed an existential shift (shift group). In the shift group and the non-shift group, the biopsychosocial and existential conditions were examined. Total-QOL, appetite, high S value, supreme experience, awareness of meaning of lives showed higher scores in the shift group than in the non-shift group. Dying with dignity was more apparent in the shift group.

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