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• Childhood cancer patients suffer less pain when placed under hypnosis, scientists have claimed.
• Dr Christina Liossi, from University of Wales, Swansea, suggested there was even tentative evidence that hypnosis prolonged the lives of cancer patients.
• The research is being presented at the BA Festival of Science in Exeter.
• The children, aged six to 16, were placed under hypnosis by experts and then taught to hypnotise themselves before they underwent procedures.
• Before we perform hypnosis we ask them to rate their pain on this scale," Dr Liossi explained.
• "Then we introduce hypnosis and then we ask them to rate pain again and they report much less."
• Other evidence presented at the festival also supports the idea that hypnosis is a genuine physical state and that people are not simply deceiving themselves into thinking they are hypnotised.
• There are some studies and there are some encouraging results from these that hypnosis can probably improve the survival of cancer patients.
• Individuals who are highly susceptible to being placed under hypnosis show that there are changes in the left frontal cortex of the brain and a structure called the cingulated gyrus when viewed through a functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.
• "The frontal lobe is concerned with our planning, our future actions, our analysis of the here and now, our critical evaluation and the things we do so we don't make silly mistakes," said Dr John Gruzelier of Imperial College, London.
• "If you think about what the hypnotist does, he asks you to go with the flow and not critically analyse what you're doing."
• Dr Liossi suggested there was even evidence that hypnosis might prolong life in adult cancer patients.
• Adult cancer patients placed under hypnosis show fewer cancer-related symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and pain, said Dr Liossi.

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