Yoga Mesothelioma Cancer Treatment Cure Prevention Tips Facts

Yoga helps to mesothelioma and other cancer patients for easier breathing.
Yoga helps cancer patients learn to reconnect with their breath and their body,
something especially useful for patients with mesothelioma or lung cancer. Cancer patients may feel that they don’t have the strength to participate in yoga classes, but if they can get over their initial misgivings, they can find it to be very beneficial.

Cancer patient Gale McCombie had seen a brochure for free yoga classes offered to cancer patients while she was sitting in a hospital waiting room. Having been told a lot about the importance of physical activity, she decided to give it a try, bringing her mom along for comfort. She was happy to learn that the yoga instructor made sure that everyone was comfortable, using props or modifications when necessary, as the other members of the class also had cancer.

Yoga Thrive is a community-based program for cancer survivors in Canada and parts of the United States. It was created by cancer researcher Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed and yoga instructor Susi Hately to provide gentle, therapeutic yoga for people in all stages of cancer treatment. Instructors take a seven-week yoga program and learn about cancer treatments and their side effects.

Culos-Reed has been a yogi for seven years, and she believes that yoga’s ability to align breath with movement is particularly beneficial for cancer patients. When patients can develop that mind-body connection, it gives them back some of the control they lost when they were diagnosed. Yoga also improves strength, flexibility and quality of life.

Yoga Bear was founded by Halle Tecco of San Francisco, California in 2006. The non-profit organization offers free yoga classes to cancer survivors in partnership with over 180 yoga studios across the country that have donated passes. They also send trained instructors into hospitals to give classes to patients who are undergoing treatment. With 70 percent of their participants new to yoga, Yoga Bear furnishes each one with a handbook that tells them what to wear, what to bring and what to expect.

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Low Cost (or Free) Air Travel for Mesothelioma Patients.


Mesothelioma patients need access to immediate and effective treatment, often available only at large cancer centers that may be thousands of miles from their home. Even if the treatment or clinical trial is available, the travel costs can prevent these patients from accessing this critical care.

Thankfully, there is a solution. Multiple organizations, such as Angel Flight, Corporate Angel Network, and Pilots of Patients, donate their planes and financial resources, as well as pilots who donate their time, to provide air transportation to those patients who require financial assistance or perhaps are too ill to fly commercially.


Each organization has different requirements, but overall they do request that the patient has some mobility, is medically stable enough to fly in an unpressurized plane, has financial need, that there is no other transportation available, and that the patient has received a medical diagnosis requiring specialized treatment from a specific hospital.


The following list is not comprehensive, but provides a sampling of these types of organizations:


National Patient Travel Center, Angel Flight America, Air Charity Network, Mercy Medical Airlift, Corporate Angel Network, Pilots of Patients.


We are thankful that these organizations are willing to donate their time and resources to the valuable cause of assisting mesothelioma patients and admire their generosity.