Mind Versus Medicine: How Our Thoughts and Feelings Can Change the Course of Cancer

What we think and how we feel affects our bodies, thus, it follows that healing may extend beyond the physical world that we can see and touch.

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A recent study published in JAMA Oncology made an intriguing discovery. The findings indicated that women who received a false positive mammography result were more likely to develop breast cancer in the 20 subsequent years than women who did not receive a false positive result.

The findings showed that the risk is highest for women between the ages of 60–75 that have low breast density and was also highest in the four to six years following a false positive result.