A study has found no increase in overall survival but a
reduction in breast cancer recurrence
when additional radiation is given to the lymph nodes as well as the standard treatment of whole - breast irradiation after breast - conserving
surgery.
But the authors of the new study do link stress -
reduction techniques with improved immunity: «Added immune control of disease processes, particularly early —
when patients were recovering from
surgery and receiving adjuvant cancer therapies — may have occurred with the declining stress.»