ACADEMY PUBLIC POLICIES

What is visualisation?

Once you have learned relaxation techniques, you can learn to see an image in your mind and to alter it as you wish. This is visualisation.

How do I learn to visualise?

What is yoga?

It is a health-giving practice which originated in India. When you practise yoga you learn breathing exercises combined with relaxation and holding certain positions. People who do regular yoga may find they feel better in their body and mind.

Can yoga help people who have breast cancer?

Many people feel quite unsettled after their breast cancer treatment is complete. Some may still be experiencing side effects and many will worry that the treatment might not have worked and that the breast cancer will come back.

Everyone recovers at their own pace, and therefore some of the issues discussed here, such as going back to work, will be early priorities for some people, while for others they will not become important until much later. Because of this, we deal with several topics which talks about living with cancer in the longer term.

TREATMENT

What should I look out for which may indicate my cancer has come back?

It is difficult to list every symptom to look for, and many of these could occur for lots of reasons other than the cancer coming back.