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The only researcher who offered encouraging data was H.J. Eysenck in England, who was a pioneer in supportive therapy for cancer. 8 His treatment was similar to Dr. David Spiegel's Expressive-Supportive Therapy that appeared, in research carried out at Stanford University, to be successful in helping women with breast cancer.9 Eysenck convincingly showed that people who were socially isolated, or who rarely expressed their emotions  especially the so-called negative feelings of fear, anger, grief, or sadness  were significantly more likely to get cancer than emotionally expressive people. He found that repressed feelings were even more hazardous to your health than alcohol or cigarettes. To deal with these negative emotions, he created an approach that he called Creative Novation Therapy, in which he helped the patient to remake himself and change his attitudes and outlook on the world.10
Surgeon William Nolan wrote a book entitled Healing: Doctor in Search of a Miracle, in which he describes a patient who had metastatic abdominal cancer that was so advanced and invasive that it was impossible to remove.11 Nolan sewed the man up and sent him home, without telling him that he expected him to die. A year later he saw the man shoveling snow outside his home in New York, where they both lived. Nolan was shocked to see the man alive. When the doctor asked him about his health, he thanked Nolan for taking such good care of him. He reported that he had been feeling fine ever since the operation! This miraculous cure stimulated Nolan to travel all over the world in search of other nontraditional healing. He visited many famous healers and healing centers, but always came away disappointed. His book chronicles his unsuccessful search for nonmedical cures, although he still believed that his personal miracle had occurred, because he had witnessed it himself.
The Institute of Noetic Sciences recently published an encyclopedic volume called Spontaneous Remission, written by O'Regan and Hirshberg, which catalogues several hundred well-documented cases in which people recovered from metastatic cancer, despite having truly been at death's door.12 The following quotation by Dr. Lewis Thomas is from the introduction of that book, and summarizes the healing opportunity:

 
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