The ABCs of Stress Management Interventions During Breast Cancer Treatment: Improving Adaptation, Biobehavioral Processes and Clinical Outcomes
Lecture abstract:
Since various forms of psychological adversity predict poorer health outcomes in women with breast cancer, it is plausible that behavioral interventions that improve skills for adapting to the challenges of breast cancer may reduce adversity during treatment and improve long-term clinical outcomes. But how? Biobehavioral mechanisms to explain such effects may involve modulating neuroendocrine, pro-inflammatory and pro-metastatic signaling during and after primary treatment.
In his lecture Dr. Antoni will present research demonstrating the effects of the intervention that he developed—group-based cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM). He will summariee the results of NCI-funded randomized controlled trials showing that CBSM reduces adversity to improve psychological adaptation, and modulates biobehavioral processes (neuroendocrine and immunologic/inflammatory) during primary breast cancer treatment. He will also present effects of CBSM on longer-term clinical outcomes (depression, quality of life, overall survival and disease-free interval) at 11yr median follow-up; and will show how changes observed during the initial 12 months after CBSM predict health effects at 11-yr follow-up.
Speaker:
Michael H. Antoni, Ph.D.
Sylvester Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Miami
Dr Michael H. Antoni completed his PhD in Clinical Health Psychology and post-doctoral internship in 1986 and has for the past 30 years served on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. He is also the Behavioral Intervention Theme Leader in the Cancer Control Program at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr Antoni has led multiple randomised trials of stress management interventions for breast cancer, prostate cancer and HIV/AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome. He served as the director of the NCI-funded P50 Center for Psycho-Oncology Research, and served as director or co-director of federal training grants focused on HIV and breast cancer. He received the Early Career Research Awards from the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American Psychological Association, and is a Fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Date and time: Wednesday 20 March, 6-7pm
Venue: Room 505-110, Building 501, Grafton Campus
RSVP by 13 March 2019 to Ranjeeni Ram r.ram@auckland.ac.nz
