Yoga beneficial for women with breast cancer

Moderate-quality evidence supported the recommendation of yoga as a supportive intervention for improving health-related quality of life and reducing fatigue and sleep disturbances when compared with no therapy, as well as for reducing depression, anxiety and fatigue, when compared with psychosocial/educational interventions. Very low-quality evidence suggested yoga might be as effective as other exercise interventions and might be used as an alternative to other exercise programmes. No serious adverse events were reported. The yoga involved complex interventions incorporating breath control and/or meditation beyond physical yoga postures. The duration of yoga programmes ranged from 2 weeks to 6 months, with a median duration of 8 weeks; the frequency of yoga interventions ranged from 1 to 10 (median 2) weekly yoga sessions of 20–120 minutes in length (median: 67.5).