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[Method of Self-Healing]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Introducing the Latest Breakthrough <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

in Cancer Therapy — YOU!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Kevin W Chen, Ph.D. MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of death around the world, and we are far away from finding the cure for various cancers at the moment.\u00a0 \u00a0The self-healing retreat offered by the Center for Integrative Medicine in University of Maryland is going to introduce the latest breakthrough in cancer therapy \u2013 YOU (the patient\u2019s self-care and self-empowerment)! \u00a0Because all known therapies work closely with patients\u2019 immune and self-recovery system; and real sense of recovery is not simply absence of tumor or physical diseases, but a complete health in body, emotion, mind and spirit.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The risks of being diagnosed with cancer have been continuously increasing in the past 30 years (from 1 in 5 in 1980 to nearly 1 in 2 in 2017) even though we have put a lot of resources and efforts into cancer research and treatment, while the national expenditure for cancer care in the U.S. has been skyrocketing to over $140 billion a year.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The known risk factors for cancer<\/a>, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other authorities, have never included important psycho-social factors, such as stress, forgiveness, and mental trauma.\u00a0 A recent report from Science<\/em> claimed that 66% of cancer-causing mutations cannot be explained by genetic or environmental factors but are due to randomness or \u201cbad luck.\u201d \u00a0This is very disturbing to cancer patients and the scientific community.<\/p>\n

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Previous retreat participants practice standing meditation in the morning.<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), cancer is not an isolated disease but a life status, which could be the result of the slowing or stasis of qi-blood flow in the body (deficiency of Zheng Q<\/em>i). Therefore, treatment should focus on strengthening the inner environment, cultivating zheng<\/em> (qi) and dispelling xie<\/em> (toxins or evil).\u00a0 \u00a0For example, an orange tree will grow sweet oranges in the south, but grow bitter Zhi<\/em> in the North, not due to mutation but the change of environment.\u00a0\u00a0 Psychological stress is one of the environmental factors that have not been fully accounted for in cancer research or treatment.\u00a0\u00a0 Stress is the causal factor for 80-90% of primary doctor\u2019s visits in the U.S. \u00a0Research suggests that many negative emotions are expressed in the form of stress response (physical or mental stress), people with stress are associated with higher cancer incidence in healthy populations, and poor survival rate and higher mortality are noted among stressed cancer patients.\u00a0 \u00a0Lab studies revealed stress helps speed up tumor growth in animals, while stress-related cortisol would create an ideal environment for cancer cell growth.\u00a0 Unfortunately, psychological intervention or stress management have never formally become part of conventional cancer treatment, nor are they available in most cancer centers, which is one of main reasons for treatment failure or cancer re-occurrence.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Most current cancer treatments focus on removal of cancer itself, but little on the internal environment that cultivated cancer growth in the first place. Many scientists believe that the stress and anxiety, cancer-phobia, emotional disturbance, relationship issues, life-style, behavior pattern, and purpose in life, etc. are the inner factors that create the environment where cancers grow.\u00a0 Without change of these factors, the root of cancer is still there, as these non-medical factors are highly correlated with treatment failures and cancer recurrence, but have not been treated in conventional cancer treatment.\u00a0 Medical Qigong from TCM offers a different philosophy and method in treatment of disease or sickness like cancer as medical qigong focus on the building of vital energy, living at the moment (mindfulness), breaking the blockage with detoxification, channeling meridian and balancing yin-yang in the system, which\u00a0offers real sense of complete health and recovery while complementary to the existing therapies.<\/p>\n

Based on scientific evidence and long-term clinical experience, we, the Center for Integrative Medicine at University of Maryland, had developed a targeted self-healing retreat to fill the treatment gap in current cancer therapies, with a focus on changing patients\u2019 attitudes toward cancer and changing of the environment that cultivated cancer growth in the first place. We have run the 7-day intensive retreat for cancer recovery servery times in the past few years and received a lot of positive feedback and outcomes. Click HERE<\/a> to read more about the feedback from previous retreat participants.<\/p>\n

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The main contents of our self-healing retreat include five distinguished aspects that are urgently needed in cancer recovery:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Change of the Mentality (Attitude) — Learn to Make Friend with Diseases<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first task in our retreat is to turn traditional searching for help outside into searching for help within so as to rebuild confidence in recovery.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n