"Religious and spiritual values are important to patients coping with cancer.
Studies have shown that religious and spiritual values are important to Americans. Most American adults say that they believe in God and that their religious beliefs affect how they live their lives. However, people have different ideas about life after death, belief in miracles, and other religious beliefs. Such beliefs may be based on gender, education, and ethnic background.
Many patients with cancer rely on spiritual or religious beliefs and practices to help them cope with their disease. This is called spiritual coping. Many caregivers also rely on spiritual coping. Each person may have different spiritual needs, depending on cultural and religious traditions. For some seriously ill patients, spiritual well-being may affect how much anxiety they feel about death. For others, it may affect what they decide about end-of-life treatments. Some patients and their family caregivers may want doctors to talk about spiritual concerns, but may feel unsure about how to bring up the subject.
Some studies show that doctors' support of spiritual well-being in very ill patients helps improve their quality of life. Health care providers who treat patients coping with cancer are looking at new ways to help them with religious and spiritual concerns. Doctors may ask patients which spiritual issues are important to them during treatment as well as near the end of life. When patients with advanced cancer receive spiritual support from the medical team, they may be more likely to choose hospice care and less aggressive treatment at the end of life." (Source: National Cancer Institute)
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Spirituality in Cancer Care (NCI)
Spirituality in Cancer Care - NCI
Cancer: Religion and Spirituality (Stanford Medicine)
Religion and Spirituality | Surviving Cancer | Stanford Medicine
Spiritual Support When You Have Cancer (ASCO)
Spiritual Support When You Have Cancer | Cancer.Net
Spirituality and Cancer Care (Cope with Cancer)
SPIRITUALITY AND CANCER CARE - Cope with Cancer
Healing Works Foundation: Pocket Guide to Cancer & Spirituality
The Pocket Guide to Cancer and Spirituality - Dr. Wayne Jonas (healingworksfoundation.org)
When facing cancer, feed your faith, not your fears (City of Hope)
When facing cancer, feed your faith, not your fears (cancercenter.com)
Health, Hope & Inspiration, an award-winning podcast developed to help people find answers to questions about cancer, cancer prevention and overall healthy living.
Health, Hope & Inspiration : City of Hope® (healthhopeandinspiration.com)
Why me? Addressing spiritual distress during a cancer journey (City of Hope)
Why me? Addressing spiritual distress during a cancer journey (cancercenter.com)
Influence of Spirituality and Religiosity of Cancer Patients on Their Quality of Life (National Library of Medicine)
"If it weren't for my faith" Spirituality in Advanced Cancer (Annals of Palliative Medicine)
The assessment of spiritual well-being in cancer patients with advanced disease: which are its meaningful dimensions? (BioMed Central Palliative Care)
TRIUMPH Study Transforming Your Mental Health Through Prayer & Healing If you or someone you know is struggling with stress, anxiety, or loss, we invite you to contact us about the TRIUMPH study at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. We are working with Black churches in New York City to identify community members who are experiencing stress, anxiety, grief from loss, or depression. Participants will be connected with Community Health Workers from each church to be screened for anxiety & depression and equipped with mental health resources. If you are 18 and older, who lives in NYC, you are eligible to complete a screening survey for the TRIUMPH study. The Hankerson lab’s work focuses on reducing racial and gender disparities in mental health that affect the Black community and other communities of color. We collaborate with several community members and organizations to promote mental health equity, increase mental health literacy, reduce stigma, and increase access to care for depression, anxiety, prolonged grief, and drug use.
https://letstriumphtogether.com/
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Book)
I Made My Faith Stronger Than My Fear (I Had Cancer) I grew up in the Bible belt in a family that wasn't religious. Setting aside the inherent difficulties in that, I always associated faith with religion, and didn't think it had much of a place in my life. Though I still don't consider myself religious, I am deeply spiritual, and becoming more so each day. It was after my cancer diagnosis that I began to focus on the role of faith in my life, and to really trust in something bigger than myself more fervently than I had before.
https://www.ihadcancer.com/h3-blog/09-08-2016/i-made-my-faith-stronger-than-my-fear
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