Will joining a support group, or getting psychotherapy, help prolong your life as a breast cancer survivor?
Yes, said Dr. David Spiegel, currently associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, whose landmark 1989 study indicated that there was a “significant difference” in survival time between breast cancer patients who attended weekly support groups, and those who didn’t. Spiegel, a Yale and Harvard grad, published research revealing that support-group...
