as they are about alternative treatments such as the use of meditation for cancer pain could be due to a need for more empirical investigations of the technique for cancer. As more and more studies are undertaken and published in the medical journals, medical service delivery people will become more aware of their effectiveness. Thus, the research problem examined in this study focused on the use of meditation for alleviating the pain of a sample of cancer patients. Specifically, the study attempted to determine whether a brief "mindfulness meditation technique" reduced the perceived pain intensity of a sample of cancer patients, all of which were currently patients in the Oncology Ward at Montefiore Hospital.
There have been several studies suggesting that meditation can operate to reduce pain. For example, in one study, McCarberg and Wolf (1999) studied a multi-dimensional cognitive-behavioral program (a component of which was med
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