Kids & Family
Beaumont Offers Wellness Program for Female Cancer Survivors
The eight-week program helps women explore and heal the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of cancer.
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak is offering Silver Linings Cancer Survivorship Program – an eight-week wellness program for female cancer survivors.
Silver Linings is free to participants regardless of where they received treatment for their cancer. All interested participants must attend an information and registration session at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at the Beaumont Cancer Institute in Royal Oak. They must be 18 years or older and have completed their cancer treatments.
Those interested in the program should contact Pam Jablonski at 248-551-4645 or pjablonski@beaumont.edu. More information on Silver Linings can be found on the hospital's website.
Silver Linings is designed for women who have survived any type of cancer and includes instruction in meditation, yoga, mindful communication and eating, breast awareness and self-exam tips, and discussion of post-cancer body image and sexuality. The program helps cancer survivors explore and heal the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of the disease.
“Our research has shown that program participants experience an improved quality of life," Dr. Ruth Lerman said. "This includes decreased stress and cancer-related physical and psychological symptoms. It may even improve the thinking and memory problems known as chemo brain.”
A research team from Oakland University and Beaumont Health System completed a randomized, controlled study of Silver Linings in September 2010. Their work was published in the September 2011 Annals of Surgical Oncology.
More than 200 women have benefited from Silver Linings training since 2005.
