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A qualitative study focusing on shared mindfulness meditation among cancer patients, health professionals, and third persons demonstrated acceptability and benefits for participants. The study design utilized an intervention similar to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) which described in detail. The study included focus groups with patients, health professionals, and third persons, revealing positive perceptions towards meditating together.

I focus on this study for three reasons:
1) It is brief and potentially replicable as an intervention in other settings at minimal cost.
2) The Intervention – the Three Minute Breathing Space – has demonstrated efficacy and is easily taught.
3) The study author was taught to teach the Three Minute Breathing Space by one of the authors of the intervention, Zindel Siegal of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
4) I

MBSR provides protection against an increase in rumination following treatment, as compared to a control group. Study provides clear description of a variation of MBSR used in this study.

Here is an interesting Case Report and discussion of the potential benefits of Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) in men with prostate cancer. Given the numbers of men affected the need for interventions is clear. Prostate cancer, despite its extent, has had low visibility compared to the socially more popular support for breast cancer.