Yoga could reduce breast cancer complications

Practicing yoga could reduce the breast cancer complications such as fatigue and inflammation, a recent study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology has suggested.                                                        

Randomized-controlled clinical trial was conducted for six months involving breast cancer patients. The participants were divided into two groups, one group received formal yoga therapy for three months, and the rest were on normal routine activities. The participants have practiced yoga twice weekly for 12 weeks. All the breast cancer patients were yoga novices, and completed breast cancer therapy before the start of the study.

After six months, reduced fatigue and inflammation was reduced by 57% and 20%, respectively, in the yoga-practiced patients. Modest yoga practice for several months could improve the symptoms among breast cancer survivors, the researchers have suggested.