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Using Thought Field Therapy (TFT) to support and complement a medical treatment for cancer: A case history

Callahan, J. · The International Journal of Healing and Caring · 2004

Case series 👥 1 participants Preliminary ✓ Source-checked 📍 United States
In plain English. A single case report describes a woman with advanced lymphoma who used Thought Field Therapy alongside her medical cancer treatment and was cancer-free 18 months later. As a single case study, this cannot show that TFT contributed to the cancer outcome versus the medical treatment itself.

What they found

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A single case report describes a woman with advanced lymphoma who used Thought Field Therapy alongside her medical cancer treatment and was cancer-free 18…

A patient treated with TFT alongside medical cancer treatment to address trauma, anxiety, and medication side effects was reported cancer-free after a year and a half.

How the study worked

Who took part 51-year-old woman with stage four mixed small and large cell follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (n=1)
What they did This is a detailed report following a small number of individual cases through tapping.
Measured with clinical case narrative outcome (cancer-free status)

The full record

DesignCase series
Participants1 people
Population51-year-old woman with stage four mixed small and large cell follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Outcome measuresclinical case narrative outcome (cancer-free status)
JournalThe International Journal of Healing and Caring
Year2004
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
MethodThought Field Therapy (related Tapping method)
Publication typeCase report
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Callahan, J. (2004). Using Thought Field Therapy (TFT) to support and complement a medical treatment for cancer: A case history. The International Journal of Healing and Caring.

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Cancer & Serious Illness 1 participants WHAT THEY FOUND A patient treated with TFT alongside medicalcancer treatment to address trauma, anxiety,and medication side effects… Case series · 1 participants Callahan · 2004 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com