| dc.description.abstract | Cancer is a chronic disease that affects emotional states and changes in daily life, causing
physiological and psychological problems. This condition can also affect the quality of life.
This literature review aims to determine the effect of yoga therapy on improving the quality
of life of breast cancer patients. The method used is by searching several published studies
through databases through PubMed, Sage Journal, SpringerLink, and Science Direct.
Research questions are designed using the PICO principle. Selected studies were
published from 2018-2022. This yoga therapy can affect the improvement of the quality of
life of breast cancer patients. Yoga can reduce depressing symptoms in patients
undergoing cancer treatment and is beneficial in reducing treatment side effects, emotional
improvement, and quality of life. The duration of yoga therapy, which is an average of 60
minutes, will improve the quality of life of breast cancer patients. Yoga shows significant
results in improving the quality of life of breast cancer patients. Yoga can majorly affect the
patient's high quality of life, namely physical function, role, emotional, cognitive, and social.
Yoga interventions can relieve pain symptoms of patients undergoing cancer treatment and
positively impact treatment side effects, improve emotions, and reduce the quality of life | en_US |
