Long-term Survival of a Patient With Widespread Metastases From Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Receiving Mind-Body Therapies: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Five-year survival of patients with stage IV epithelial ovarian carcinoma not treated after recurrence is almost nonexistent in oncological literature. The authors report a patient almost 30 years after surgery of the primary epithelial ovarian carcinoma lesion and 15 years after recurrent disease and incomplete chemotherapy who is alive without evidence of disease. She received no conventional oncological therapy during the past 15 years but rather used many types of alternative medicine, predominantly mindbody therapies. The authors review the relevant literature on this subject and describe what they believe to be the first report of long-term survival of such a patient.

NeuroIS—Alternative or Complement to Existing Methods? Illustrating the Holistic Effects of Neuroscience and Self-Reported Data in the Context of Technostress Research

“…Yet, these two measures may be complementary such that, together, they afford higher levels of explained variance in technology use. This notion is consistent with research on the mind-body relationship, which indicates that people can neither exist with a body nor with a mind alone; both mind and body are necessary for a person to survive (Lev-ari et al, 2006;Loucks, 1941). Further, this notion is consistent with stress research, which indicates that using both psychological and physiological measures together entails that "a greater picture can be obtained and more powerful predictive relationships achieved" (Travers & Cooper, 1994, p. 145).…”

“…Overall, theory and empirical research lead us to propose that psychological and physiological measures of an IS construct may not assess the same dimension of the construct and should, hence, perhaps not be treated as alternatives (Lev-ari, Maimon, & Yaal-Hahoshen, 2006). This proposition implies-based on the triangulation approach-that psychological and physiological measures of IS constructs should neither correlate highly nor significantly and that they each may explain unique proportions of variance in theoretically related outcome variables.…”

Biofield Therapies and Cancer Pain

“…Complementary modalities are used by patients with cancer to enhance the benefits of conventional treatments (e.g., radiation, chemotherapy) and to improve overall well-being and HRQOL (Fouladbakhsh et al, 2005;Fouladbakhsh & Stommel, 2010;Kemper et al, 2009;Lev-ari, Maimon, & Yaal-Hahoshen, 2006;Mansky & Wallerstedt, 2006). Use of CAM by patients with cancer is significantly associated with receiving multiple treatments, management of illness-and treatment-related symptoms, improving survival, and decreasing recurrence (Fouladbakhsh et al, 2005;Fouladbakhsh & Stommel, 2007, with patients using CAM during chemotherapy, radiation therapy, palliative therapy, and phase 1 clinical trials (von Gruenigen et al, 2006).…”