Yoga for Cancer Survivors: What the Research Actually Shows

New findings point to a specific style of yoga that meaningfully improves outcomes for cancer survivors—and the mechanisms behind it are worth understanding. Here's what the science says.

Cancer survivorship research has expanded dramatically over the past two decades, and yoga keeps showing up in the data—not as a feel-good adjunct, but as an intervention with measurable physiological effects. The question researchers have been narrowing in on isn't whether yoga helps, but which kind, at what dose, and through what biological pathways.

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