Breast Cancer: A Brief Summary

The article reviews the effects of laughter as a humor therapy relieving anxiety, stress, depression, and increases quality of life on a cancer patient. In particular, cancer originated from uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancer can develop in any part of the body of male and female. For example, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and gastric cancer. Generally, cancer is known as a chronic illness; a disease that persists for a long time, depending when it was detected in the body. Cancer is a disease that affects physiological, social, and psychological levels of a patients and distorts life in ways. Furthermore, cancer is a treatable disease depends how early it is detected in the body. Cancer can be treated through surgery by removing the tumor. It can also be treated through chemotherapy using anti-cancer drugs to kills the cancerous cells in the body where it is found and also, cancer is being treated with radiation using a radiation therapy to kill the affected cells and areas in the parts of the body. These treatments cause stress, anxiety, depression, and decreases the quality of life in a cancer patient. Also, makes life miserable for the cancer patients due to its side effects with the treatment. Certainly, this article provides facts that laughter …show more content…
After the first therapeutic laughter sessions, anxiety, depression, and stress levels of the patient significantly decreased in the experimental group. There was no change in a control group, who did not participate in the laughing therapy. At the end, the finding shows that that laughter therapy is effective after a single session in reducing anxiety, depression, and stress in breast cancer