New front to fight cancers
Power Thinking Health Council, an Albury, NSW, Australian based non-profit cancer research organization, announces the launch of a new research front it developed to fight cancers.
Power Thinking Health Council believes pathways exist between human psychology, emotions and related environmental impacts, and DNA genes and cancers prognosis and outcomes. These, it believes, are connected and it further believes that urgent research is needed into these links to provide positive opportunities to treat and prevent cancers.
It is establishing the new cancer research front of psycho-genomics. In psycho-genomic treatments and preventions, we would see an integrated approachto seek to prevent and treat cancers, taking into account our psychological, emotional, psychosocial, physiological and genomic pathways.
Power Thinking Health Council research finds pathways exist from how we feel, how we do things and how we relate to others to our genes that can have positive adjustment and survival outcomes for cancer patients. Most cancers have a genes based diagnosis.
Various experiments and clinical research have identified links, for example, between stressors and psychological, psychosocial, environmental factors and genes which may provide a basis for treatment and prevention of cancers.
We will apply psycho-genomic analysis to an earlier clinical trial that demonstrated positive adjustment and survival outcomes for cancer patients through psychological and psychosocial interventions. The clinical trial interventions includedhealth education (for example, cancers, nutrition, exercise, environmental); stress management (for example, general stress information, personal stress awareness, relaxation techniques); enhancement of coping skills (for example problem solving, general coping alternatives, theoretical and personal application of solutions); and psychological support (from group members and staff).
Power Thinking Health Council will, in its research programidentify gene expression and gene mutation marker differentials between cancer and non-cancer population;undertake a study over several years looking for blood markers of cellular dysfunctions which predispose to cancer, i.e. a step before the current screening phase, andidentify psychological or psychosocial intervention affects on those blood markers over time in order to treat cancers to increase survivorship and prevent initiation of cancers.
After over four years of research, workshops, launch of its e-survey and wellbeing monitor and other analysis of fields of enquiry, it now is looking for help to undertake its research findings.
The help sought includes financial or in-kind assistance to prepare a business plan, to prepare the NSW Cancer Institute Ethics Committee approval documentation, setting up the structure of the organisation necessary to undertake the research, obtaining grants and other necessary funding to undertake the research.We seek your support financially and/or through research associations or partnerships to fund and progress our program.
Research streams that form part of psycho-genomics include cancer, psychology, emotional expression & processing, psychosocial, environmental, physiology, DNA genes and genomics.
Consultants, sponsors and advisers have included Professor Avni Sali, MBBS PhD FRACS FACS FACNEM, Jan Roberts, Psychologist;Don Power, Power + Executive Coaching;Gayl Chivers Inspirational Life; Charles Sturt University; Gloria Jeans Albury Wodonga; Peard’s Nursery, Albury; Peter Chandler, Chartered Accountant; Albury Wodonga Cancer Support Group; Just Foods Albury, Albury Apartments, Petrea King Quest For Life Centre, Canberra Plan Printing, and over 500 attendees at our workshops and discussion groups.
Power Thinking Health Council is a branch of Power Thinking International Incorporated (PTII). PTII is a NSW registered charity, a registered Tax Concession Charity and Deductible Gift Recipient for Australian Tax purposes.
Thank you for taking the time to find out about our initiative to minimize the ravages of cancers and develop psycho-genomic approaches to greaterenhanced cancer treatment and prevention strategies.
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Reference: “Stressors, psycho-genomic pathways and cancers” by TheoRichter at