Mind and C

1. The Mind and Cancer
Dr. Rudy Kachmann

2. Mind/Body-Body/Mind
• How does the brain effect the body?
• How does the body effect the brain?
• Every thought, conscious or unconscious affects
the physiology of the body.
• Every physiological reaction of the body affects
the brain-subconsciously or unconsciously.
• Every thought affects the 60 trillion cells of your
body.
• Every one of your 60 trillion cells eavesdrops on
your every thought.

3. What is Holistic Medicine?
• Physiological
• Physical
• Spiritual
• Each person is
unique
• Each person should
be part of decision
making team
• The person has self-
healing abilities

4. Mind/Body-Body/Mind
• How does the brain
speak to the body?
• How does the body speak
to the brain?
• Neuropeptides-CRH,
TSH, FSH, ACTH
• Hormones-Estrogen,
Testosterone
• Neurotransmitters-
acetycholine,
epinepherine

5. Molecules of Emotion
• Doctor Candice Pert
• The emotional body
• Opiate receptor site
• Monocytes make every neuropeptide in
the body.
• Mind/body-Body/mind

6. Psycho-Neuro-Immunology (PNI)
• White cells,
monocytes, T-cells,
bone marrow, spleen,
thymus
• Your Army, Navy and
Air Force can be
influenced by your
thoughts, positively or
negatively.
• “The will to live”

7. History of the Mind and Cancer
• In the literature for 2000 years
• 1846 Dr. Walter Hyle
– Nature and treatment of cancer was very clear to him,
questioning its reality would have seemed a struggle
against reason.
• 1865 Dr. Claude Bernard-A human being must
be considered a harmonious whole.
• 1870 Paget
– Depression plays a vital role in cancer as well as
anxiety and hopelessness increase cancer growth

8. History of the Mind and Cancer ctd.
• 1893 Snow – First statistical proof of increased
rate of cancer in a group of 250 patients - in 156
there was recent severe stress – loss of relative,
divorce, or death.
• Patients with severe mental disease like
schizophrenic, idiots, or lunatics have low rate of
cancer
• Paranoids – who think too much have higher
rates of cancer than normal people.

9. Carl & Stephanie Simonton
“Getting Well Again” 78’ 80’ 92’
• The first patient
• The Simonton study of 159 patients
• “It’s more important to know what kind of
person has a disease – than what disease
the patient has – very true, “My forty years
of medical practice”
• Cancer patients live twice as long if they
are taught mind/body medicine.

10. Cancer
• 30%-45% are cured by
modern medicine
• But one dies and the other
doesn’t although they have
the same disease.
• Patients taught mind/body
medicine live twice as long
• They have a higher rate of
spontaneous cures

11. Spontaneous Remissions
• The placebo effect
• Placebo – Nocibo
• Immunology
• Will to live
• Love
• I believe
• Positive and Negative expectations

12. Cancer
• A weak and confused cell – a
reject
• Cancer begins with a cell with
incorrect genetic information.
• We have a few cancer cells
everyday. (white cells kills them)
• We make billions of cells daily – so
a mistake wouldn’t be a surprise!
• Malignant cells are weak and
disorganized

13. Causes of Cancer
• Carcinogenic substances – Nicotine, Tar,
Chemicals, Drugs.
• Loss of immunity
• Drugs, Stress, Depression, Genetic
Predisposition, Diet, and Obesity
• 20% of cancer caused by the diet – Breast,
Prostate, and colon.
• Japan – Little cancer, but when in the U.S. rate
same as Americans, due to diet and stress.

14. Cancer Causes
• Put cancer cells in humans and they are
immediately destroyed.
• Transplant Story
• Surveillance Theory
• Stress and illness – strong link

15. Mind Body Index
• Stress reduces immunity
• Dr. Hans Seley
• Christopher Reeve – Bereavement
• Dr. Holmes – Rahe – Stress test
• When life is too hectic and coping fails, illness is
the unhappy result, including cancer
• All animal research stopped – linking cancer and
stress – the proof is 100% certain.

16. Hans Selye
• General adaptation syndrome – chronic stress
• Stress suppresses immune system – your army
goes away
• Definition of stress – “Inability to cope with
perceived – real or imaginary, threats to our
physical, emotional, and psychological well
being”
• Selye – “Nonspecific response of the body to
stress”

17. The Individual
• Increased level of stress, increase
susceptibility to illness.
• Chronic, not acute, stress causes
suppression of the immune system.
• Acute stress is over too quickly
• Chronic stress – loss of white cells
enlarged adrenal glands, enlarged hearts,
weight loss, and death.

18. Psychological Evidence
• Dr. Lawrence LeShan – experimental
psychologists – foremost theorist of the
psychological life history of a cancer
patient.
• Emotional factors in the causation of
cancer

19. Emotional Factors and Cancer
Dr. LeShan
• Patients youth was marked by feelings of
isolation, despair and intense
interpersonal relationships
• Previous strong personal relationships
removed (death, move, divorce, and
retirement)
• Despair was bottled up – the zest left their
lives simply wanting to die, ready for death

20. Dr. LeShan
• 76% of 500 patients with cancer had a history of
emotional problems or severe stress
• Only 10% of the control group without cancer
had this pattern
• Other studies by Dr. Schmale – patients with
cancer frequently had a history of hopelessness
and frustration
• Dr. Green – Many patients with leukemia and
lymphoma had history of dispair, hopelessness
and discontinuity
• Dr. Kissen – Heavy smokers, the ones that have
cancer were found to have high rates of chronic
stress.

21. Carl Simonton
• The ranch hand
• Six kids and off to college, now what? Breast
cancer with metastasis
• Retirement, now what? Higher rates of cancer
immediately after retirement
• Identity problem
• Loss of coping, no purpose
• Hopelessness, and helplessness – no control
• Death is the solution

22. Recovery
• The purposeful life – Rick Warren, Dr.
LeShan, Dr. Kachmann
• Power of positive thinking – Dr. Norman
Vincent Peale
• “You can if you think you can”

23. Upward Spiral of Recovery
• With cancer – the individual gains a new
perspective on his/her problem – (Wake-
up call)
• The new permission slip to act differently –
suspend the rules
• New rules increase psychological energy
• Hope and renewed desire to live
• Change in psychological state as well as
change in physiological state.

24. “The will to live”
Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker’s
• Positive or negative expectations very
important
• You have only six months to live
• My son’s patient
• Voodoo affect
• Positive attitude was more important that
the disease according to studies by Dr.
Simonton

25. Our Society
• Lot of negative thinking by medical providers
and patients – “You have only six months to live”
• Cancer is synonymous with death – not true
• Drastic effects of surgery and chemo –That’s all
wrong
• 30%-45% are cured by modern medicine
• Another 25% live many years
• At least 50% are helped by mind/body medicine
– Many live twice as long and a higher
spontaneous remission rate.

26. Positive Expectancy
• Cancer may not be fatal
• Your body defenses are mortal enemies of
cancer
• Modern medicine cures many patients
• Medical and psychological treatments are
great help - This is not false hope
• Marriage has only 50% success rate –
cancer is no different
• Hope very important in cancer survival

27. Mind Body Index
• Depression, despair, hopelessness,
helplessness – causes of mind/body
diseases including cancer
• Limbic system – records depression and
despair
• Hypothalamus – Metabolic center
• Neuropeptides control immune system
through CRH – Pituitary gland – ACTH
adrenal glands

28. Recovery
• First step strengthening their belief in
effectiveness of the treatment and potency
of defenses and change in perception
• Teaching the will to live
• Pursue medical and emotional intervention
• Stress reduction and possibly psychiatric
treatment

29. Participating in Your Health
• Identify the major stresses six to eight months
prior to their diagnosis
• Identify hopelessness and helplessness
• Identify benefits of illness
• Learning to relax and visualize recovery
• Value of positive mental images
• Overcoming resentment and releasing the past
• Creating the future and setting goals
• Increasing the will to live and creating a purpose
in life
• Mental imagery – inner guide

30. Participating in Your Health
•Pain management with biofeedback
•Teach yoga – mind control and exercises
•Meditation – “The Breath”
•Loving support system –
My friend Andre Rieu says,
“There is no greater force in the world than
love.” “The heart beats in a rhythm of
three, just like the waltz”

31. First Week
• Read “The Will to Live” by Dr. Arnold
Hutchneckers
• “Mind as Healer” by Dr. Kenneth Pellitier
• “Seeing the Minds Eye” by Mike and
Nancy Samuels
• Practice relaxation/mental imagery x’s
three daily for ten minutes – have an
instructor teach you and have a CD

32. Second Week
• Relaxation mental/imagery
• Fill out stress questionnaire –
Holmes/Rehe and mine in “Welcome To
Your Mind Body”
• Start yoga, meditation
• Art – Draw your perception of the illness
• 30 minute walk daily if possible and
communicate with nature

33. Learning to RELAX
• Meditation
• Visualization
• Massage
• Ti-Chi
• Chi-Gong
• Shiatsu
• Biofeedback
• Acupuncture

34. Progressive Relaxation
with Mental Imagery
• Imagery – The language of the sub and
unconscious
• Relaxation/Mental imagery x’s three daily – ten
minutes
• CD with above
• Many meditative techniques all based on the
breath – bring yourself to the center – the “Now”
– Not before or after
• Mantra – Mind energy – “Ong Guru Deve Namo”
“Sat Namo”.

35. Language of Motivational
Psychology
• Imaging – Picture desired events, movies,
odors, sensations dress it up with ALL the
senses
• Positive expectations
• Purposeful life
• Will to live
• Shower of positive neuropeptides,
hormones and neurotransmitters
• Biofeedback

36. The Mental Imagery Process
• Meditation – Breaths centering – Quiet mind –
Relax body – Mantra (Many methods)
• Think and visualize weak and confused cancer
cells (Previously draw picture – art)
• Visualize your treatment entering your body
• Radiation – beams of millions of bullets of
energy hitting your tumor cells
• Picture the chemo drug entering your blood –
acting like a poison killing the weak tumor cells
• Watch yourself urinating out the dead cells

37. The Mental Imagery Process
• Picture your white cells destroying your
cancer – overwhelming them all over your
body
• Picture the cancer shrinking
• Visualize yourself as well with no pain – a
normal person
• Draw a real picture demonstrating what
you did

38. Value of Relaxation
of Mental Imagery
• Remove hopelessness and helplessness
• Decrease fear – regain sense of control
• Increase the will to live – Create a purpose
• Effect physical changes
• Evaluating and altering beliefs
• Tool to communicate with the unconscious
• Decrease tension and stress

39. Criteria for Effective Imagery
• Cancer cells are weak and confused
• The treatment is strong and powerful
• The healthy cells have no difficulty repairing any slight
damage the treatment might do
• The army of white cells is vast and overwhelms the
cancer cells
• The white cells are aggressive, eager for battle, quick to
seek out cancer cells and destroy them
• The dead cancer cells are flushed from the body
normally and naturally
• By the end of the imagery, your healthy and free of
cancer
• See yourself reaching your goals in life, fulfilling your
life’s purpose

40. “The Secret of the Non-Diet”
• Complex carbs
• Whole Grain
• Vegetables
• Legumes
• Fruit
• Fish twice a week
• Omega 3
• Multi-vitamin
• All you can eat

41. My Goal
• Have Mind/Body medicine available to all
cancer patients
• Almost all patients become more hopeful
with this approach
• It increases the will to live
• Patients are happier
• It may double their life span and increase
the chances of a spontaneous cure