A Psychosomatic Study Of Spontaneous Regression Of Cancer On Local Lymphocyte Infiltration Of Long Survival Cases Of Cancer Patients, Mainly Digestive Cancer Patients, And Their Psychological Aspects
Japanese Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 21(3): 1981; 217-227
View Original Source →Abstract
The author reports the follow-up of a case reported in an earlier article (Medical Journal of Australia 2(4) (July 23 1977) 132-133) in which a patient with carcinoma of the breast experienced regression of metastases following intensive meditation. After seeking treatment by Dr. Brych in the Cook Islands, the patient experienced a relapse and has since died.
Case Details
Personal Characteristics
Patients WHO experienced spontaneous regression had a marked tendency to repress their feelings. After they knew they had cancer, they stopped their bad habits completely and started to live a meaningful life on a day-to-day basis by doing service for their surroundings. Showed no sign of depression, fear of death or loss of meaning of life after cancer was diagnosed.
Clinical Characteristics
Spontaneous regression of cancer (src) was classified according to the definition by everson and cole in 1966. The reduction of a cancer which has been pathohistologically confirmed; reduction of a cancer in spite of unsatisfactory therapy or in the absence of any anti-cancer therapy; the long survival of the host body due to extremely delayed progress or prolonged arrest of cancer with no rapid growth of a malignant tumor; the long survival of the host body with no cachectic change of cancer in the presence of some anti-cancer therapy or the death of the host body after long survival due to some cause other than cancer.
Remission Characteristics
Spontaneous regression
Treatment & Mechanisms
Proposed Remission Mechanisms
Not discussed
Clinical Treatment
Unsatisfactory therapy or in the absence of any anti-cancer therapy
Additional Notes
This can be called (according to Booth) an existential shift.