"Sometimes to heal, often to help, always to comfort". Cancer patients are a special group who are always under extraordinary psychological pressure and burden. As oncologists, it is not only necessary to relieve their pain, but also important to care for their psychology.

In order to help cancer patients release psychological pressure, relieve pain and face life with a positive mindset, St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou held a psychological healing salon for cancer patients with the theme of "Learning to Live with Cancer" on July 12, Ms. Huang Yunsi, a psychotherapist of the National Health Commission, a national health manager, and a hypnotherapist of NGH/ABH in the United States, was specially invited to give a psychological therapy lecture to cancer patients in the hospital. The event was hosted by Mr. Yu Ri'an, Director of the Business Center, and actively participated by patients from home and abroad.

Opening address: the importance of mental health

At the beginning of the event, Mr. Yu Rian, director of the operation center, delivered a speech, explaining that physical health, mental health, and the integrity of social functions are truly healthy. He also stressed the positive significance of mental health for tumor patients. Healthy psychology is conducive to the normal work of the human immune system, which has positive significance for improving the quality of life of patients with intermediate and advanced cancer, prolonging the life cycle, and can also better help patients restore social functions, return to their families, return to society, and gradually integrate into normal life.

Mental health lecture: let go of the label and live in the moment

Psychotherapist Huang Yunsi gave a lecture on the relationship between psychological emotions and cancer development. She emphasized that negative emotions have an inhibitory effect on the body's immune function, affect the immune surveillance of cancer cells, make cancer cells active, and accelerate the progression of the disease, while happy mood is the opposite. She hoped that everyone can "let go of the label of cancer patients and live in the moment". Additionally, through interactive activities, she guided everyone in collective meditation and other methods to open their hearts and alleviate emotions, helping patients gain a deeper understanding of how emotional regulation impacts their physical and mental well-being. Patients and their families actively participated, creating a vibrant atmosphere at the event.

Psycho-physiotherapy interactions: learning to live with cancer

Open your heart and embrace the future

Under the guidance of Mr. Huang Yunsi, everyone at the scene introduced themselves to each other,  getting to know one another, sharing their hobbies, and talking about their positive life. It was all about learning to open their hearts, share the beautiful moments, and embrace the future.

Be thankful for everything and talk to your heart

Listen to the gratitude essay, guide everyone to learn to be grateful, talk with the heart, conduct self-counseling, guide patients to reconcile with the things around them, reconcile with tumors, learn to live in harmony with their own bodies and cancer.

Group meditation and relaxation

Ms. Huang Yunsi led the patients to do group hypnosis and relaxation therapy. Using professional techniques, Ms. Huang guided the patients step by step into a state of complete relaxation with soft music and positive psychological suggestion to fully mobilize the patients' autoimmune function.

During the group hypnosis relaxation treatment, the patients devoted themselves to the spiritual journey, temporarily forgot the pain of the disease, and slowly showed a comfortable smile.

At the end of the activity, the hospital also specially arranged professional psychological counseling for patients to provide one-on-one psychological relief for tumor patients and their families in need, further releasing psychological pressure for them.

Through this special salon for cancer patients, the mood of patients will be relieved, the body and mind of patients will be happy, and they will be full of hope for the future. This is the beginning of the mental health section of San Danfo Guangzhou Modern Cancer Hospital. The hospital will continue to take advantage of the situation to open up a new situation, provide more mental health services for patients in the future, ensure the physical and mental happiness of patients in the hospital, and fulfill the important mission of protecting the mental health of patients with practical actions.

*Surgery, in addition to the appropriate chemotherapy and radiotherapy, are effective in treating early cancer, but certain patients in late stage of cancer may not be tolerate surgery well as they can be relatively weak. A combination of carefully planned minimally invasive therapy, chemotherapy or radiotherapy can effectively reduce the side effects and discomfort of treatment and may help patient get better efficacy.