Making cancer memories less stressful

NET researcher Anna Tobia and Andrew Newberg

Andrew Newberg, MD, and Anna Tobia, PhD

The memory of a cancer diagnosis, treatment or other significant event can be scary, and cause long-term stress in patients. Andrew B. Newberg, MD, director of research at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, and Anna Tobia, clinical psychologist at the center recently spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer about a new study that attempts to ease the discomfort of certain memories in cancer patients.

The treatment, called neuro-emotional technique (NET), combines Chinese medicine, cognitive-behavioral therapy and a muscle test.

“NET treatment requires patients to examine their emotions around the traumatic moment sparked by their cancer – fear, impending doom, feeling lost, sadness,” Tobia said. “We then go back through their lives to find other times when they’ve felt similar emotions around unresolved traumatic experiences.”

You can read more about the study here the full story here.

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