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The Effect Of Meditation On Quality Of Life In Women With Breast Cancer And Other Gynecological Cancers

NCT00248911 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 94

Last updated 2017-02-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Women with breast cancer and other gynecologic cancers often suffer significant distress and disability from their disease. A practice of meditation-based stress reduction and cognitive-affective-behavioral learning may help women with these conditions decrease their suffering and improve their quality of life.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness based meditation program

Subjects will participate in an intervention consisting of group and individual instruction in a meditation-based practice of stress-reduction and cognitive-affective-behavioral learning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Avon Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Weill Medical College of Cornell University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mary E Charlson, MD · Weill Medical College of Cornell University

  • Joseph Loizzo, MD,PhD · Center for Complementary and Intergrative Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
101 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-05-31
Primary Completion
2010-03-31
Completion
2010-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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