ation or even something as simple as a video game. (Clay,2000). Family members and friends also need to be strong and encourage the patient in their road to recovery. Approaching the cancer experience through the mental side of it can help lead to a recovery not only physically, but as well as mentally. (Walters,1993 p.67). Thus, it is shown that psychological therapy can be extremely beneficial to the patient and his family and friends. It can help you with your state of mind, endure the grueling treatments and help your family and friends cope with the cancer. The article and the research, I read gave me a new perspective on what people can do to help support cancer sufferers through their ordeal. Information on this subject was very difficult to find, because this type of therapy is fairly recent in regards to cancer. With new research and breakthroughs, hopefully the psychological therapy of cancer will become more recommend by doctors. The article by Rebecca Clay as well as the other research articles I gathered, were very informational and I feel should be a must read for any cancer patient or any loved ones of that patient. I feel that the psychological therapy should be the first step to treat any cancer. If you can get the patient to focus on beating the cancer, enduring the treatments and just overall relaxing them I think you would see a large survival rate or life span. The only problem with these theories of the use of psychological therapy is that there is truly no way to know how these treatments help the patient, because there is no machine or medicine to measure the success of the therapy being given. Whether or not you can have conclusive evidence that these types of therapies are beneficial, they need to be into heavy consideration when approaching a cancer victim, because they might just save that patients life....
