Once cancer patients have completed treatment, experiences with stress-related sequelae that impede recovery often persist. Mindfulness has been shown to alleviate symptoms associated with this stress. Cancer survivors were randomly... more
Once cancer patients have completed treatment, experiences with stress-related sequelae that impede recovery often persist. Mindfulness has been shown to alleviate symptoms associated with this stress. Cancer survivors were randomly assigned to either six-week Internet-delivered mindfulness training or a usual-care control and were compared on the following outcome battery: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Profile of Mood States, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Fatigue Symptom Inventory. Assessments were conducted before and after treatment and intervention compliance was monitored. Mindfulness treatments were delivered at a time and on a computer of the participants’ choosing. Multivariate and univariate follow-up analyses indicated that mindfulness training produced significant benefits on all measures. Effect sizes were all medium to large as well. Online mindfulness instruction represents a widely-accessible intervention for reducing psychological distr...
Throughout 2018 in the "STROKA" clinic in Tirana, are presented for alternative treatment 28 patients with recurrent non melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) after standard treatment with surgery, radiotherapy or together for one or more lesions.... more
Throughout 2018 in the "STROKA" clinic in Tirana, are presented for alternative treatment 28 patients with recurrent non melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) after standard treatment with surgery, radiotherapy or together for one or more lesions. All patients are diagnosed with Basal Cell Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma, and are treated with NILS which contains extracts of some Albanian plants such as Allium sativum, Juglans regia and Laurus nobilis. According to a certain methodology, the treatment of patients lasts from one to three months until the complete destruction of the tumor and the regeneration of the area below and around it. From the first session, the measure of the tumor was reduce and all the surface that has absorbed the Nils, was turn in a cruste. The crustes falls one after another until the tumor mass has end and the sound layer was reached. At this point, we stoped the sessions of treatment, because the process of regeneration starts. NILS solution is
