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...like her are at the mercy of medical science, the slim possibility that a miracle drug might be discovered in time to save them. Rather than obsess about that, Shinta chose to set the bar a little lower. In 2000, she joined a group of women - all with advanced breast cancer - engaged in a Melbourne-based trial of Supportive-Expressive Group Therapy, in which the participants meet weekly to discuss their cancer, including their treatment and innermost thoughts and feelings...
...premise of SEGT: that serious illness offers a chance for personal growth. "Much of life involves periods in which people drift somewhat aimlessly, taking life for granted," the three therapists involved in the Melbourne trial write in a new book, A Life to Live: A Group Journey with Advanced Breast Cancer (PsychOz Publications). "Only . . . when death is faced . . . does an authenticity emerge that brings with it the capacity to live life truly and fully...
...Melbourne trial. A dozen or so Thursday Girls still meet weekly at a Salvation Army center in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Sitting around the kitchen table at the home of member Jeanette, three of them explain how the therapy helped them after the shattering diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer. "I was spiraling down," says Sally, 47, whose cancer reappeared in the original site and on her spine eight years after she thought she'd beaten it. "I'm coping enormously better now, purely and simply because I can go to this group, this sanctuary. You can say what you like...
...prolong life? That tantalizing prospect was raised in 1989 with the publication of a smaller study of women with advanced breast cancer by Stanford University's David Spiegel, who found that participants who'd received SEGT lived an average 17 months longer than those in the control group. The implications seemed enormous: if psychological intervention could help people with advanced cancer, what might it do for those in the early stages of the disease? Alas, while several replication trials have since supported Spiegel's findings, an equal number have done the opposite. Kissane, along with the Thursday Girls' current therapists...
...Andre Agassi's family was rocked when his sister Tami and mother Elizabeth were diagnosed with breast cancer within months of each other. "It was a rude awakening," says the tennis star, who took time off from the tour to support them in their fight. Four years later, both women are cancer free, but Andre has continued to aid the anticancer cause with fund-raising tennis events and by contributing to Tami Agassi's recently published Star Palate cookbook (Documentary Media). The book gathers recipes from celebrities like Anna Kournikova (Ukrainian borscht), Emeril Lagasse (veal shanks), Britney Spears (seafood pasta...