Ken Godevenos, President. Accord Consulting, wrote a review of Reducing Your Cancer Risk: A holistic approach that was written by Dr Carl O Helvie, President, to make money for the Holistic Cancer foundation. The review weas placed in Amazon, Facebook. LinkedIn, and Twitter. A link to the review follows. ...

On May 23 of this year I was interviewed by Allison Mechanics on CBS Channel 3 local news about my latest book Reducing Your Cancer Risk: A holistic approach. . The cameras rolled for 1 1/2 hours and the actual footage televised was about 6 minutes. A link to the show follows.    :...

Dr Carl O Helvie was interviewed on Voice of the People (on a syndicate radio station)  by James Lowe in Kansas. I discussed mu latest book Reducing Your Cancer Risk: A holistic approach  and other aspects of cancer. The interview is 19 minutes long and a link follows....

Latest review of my last book Reducing Your Cancer Risk: A holistic approach by Cheryl Gress in Christ Consciousness Gamer.  –...

Yesterday I was interviewed on Chicago Media 3 by William Maxwell on my cancer journey and my recently published book Reducing Your Cancer Book. Enjoy the interview below. .. http://www.chicago3media.com/carl-o-helvie-author-reducing-your-cancer-risk-holistic-approach

In a study published in Cancer on December 12, 2016 researchers studies 9267 women in the After Breast Cancer Pooling Project. They were interested in determining the post diagnosis social networks and breast cancer mortality of the group. Data was provided within 2 years after diagnosis and social networks included spouses/partners, religious ties, community ties, friendship ties, and numbers of living first-degree relatives. Cox models were...

There is contradictory research findings showing a link between stress and cancer causation. However, there is more research showing a solid relationship between chronic stress and the progression of cancer. The major cause of death in cancer is from metastasis and to decrease the risk of this outcome for cancer patient interventions should be directed toward destroying  the cancer cells  and making the human host more resistant . Some of the...

In a randomized study reported in PubMed.gov in 2012 researchers studied 999 cancer patients at a cancer center between 2003 and 2008 to evaluate the effects of intercessory prayer when added to normal cancer care. Subjects completed Quality of Life and Spiritual Well Being tools at the beginning of the study and 6 months later.  Subjects were prayed for over the study period. Results showed that the intervention group had significantly greater...

In 1999, Fogarty et al published research in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on the effect of physician compassion on client’s anxiety, information recall, treatment decisions, and assessment of physician characteristics. One hundred twenty three healthy breast cancer survivors and 87 women without cancer were participants. A randomized pre/post test control group design with a standardized videotape intervention was used. Participants...

In a study in the journal of personality and social psychology in 2003 researchers asked subjects to write a few sentences each week, focusing on particular topics. One group wrote about things they were grateful for that had occurred during the week. A second group wrote about daily irritations or things that had displeased them, and the third wrote about events that had affected them (with no emphasis on them being positive or negative)....

Carl O Helvie, R.N., Dr.P.H. is a registered nurse with a doctorate in Public Health (Johns Hopkins) and over sixty years’ experience as a nurse practitioner, educator, author and researcher. He has published eight books and chapters in four additional ones, and published 40 articles, presented over 55 research papers internationally and 60 papers for lay groups. Some of his books resulted from his development and over 35 years refinement of...

In 1987, Soderstrom and Martison studied the coping strategies of cancer patients and found the most common coping strategy was praying alone or with others, and having others pray for them. In a related study in 1994, Cayse studied stressors and coping strategies of fathers of cancer patients and found that of 29 separate potential strategies, prayer was both the most common and most helpful for men. In 1998, Ferrell et al, studied a random...