HANDWRITING ANALYSIS IN CANCER PATIENTS.
HANDWRITING ANALYSIS IN CANCER PATIENTS.
CLINICAL RADIOLOGICAL AND GRAPHOLOGICAL CORRELATION
Francesco Matozza M.D.-Consultant
Oncologist, Rawson and Rivadavia Hospitals , Buenos Aires
Prof. Adriana Ortiz–Consultant graphologist, Handwriting
expert. InstitutoBinet-Buenos Aires
Daniel Levy M.D., Chief Department of Oncology
RivadaviaHospital , Buenos Aires
For contacts: fmatozza@fibertel.com.ar
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INTRODUCTION
•Cancer is an illness that has a number of causes. Whether a person develops a form of cancer or not may depend on one or more of these causal factors:
•Hereditary
•Environmental
•Behaviour
•Psycho-socio-emotional
•These factors can be present at any one time and yet the person
may not develop the illness.
•The study of one’s personal handwriting can show the relationship between his central nervous system and the conscious/ unconscious state of his mind. Therefore it is possible to hypothesize that any changes in a person’s frame of mind may be reflecting don his/her handwriting.
OUR AIM
•To evaluate the use of the ‘graphologicalanalysis of
thecancer patient’s personality
•Predict the patient’s attitude and behaviour during cancer treatment
•Establish the relationship between the graphologicalanalysis of a person’s
handwriting and the patient’s prognosisBy using statistical analysis
RATIONAL
•An early diagnosis of metastasis or relapse it is
important to establish an adequate treatmentin cancer patients
•Handwriting analysis can help oncologist showing organs dysfunction :(lungs,
genitourinary tract, Gynaecological, spine,gastro intestinal tract, liver, etc.)
MATERIAL AND METHOD
•From August 2004to March 2007, 1400 cases were examined. 280 oncological patients’ (with tumours including breast, lung, ovary, uterus, colon, melanoma, brain, lymphoma, leukaemia, prostrate, thyroid,etc.) and 280 persons without the illness, without distinction of sex and in an agerange of between35 and 70 years were evaluated.
. The patients were at different stages of their illness from the clinical and radiological point of view as well as from their handwriting stage.
We conducted semi-structured interviews and asked for handwriting samples carried out at the time of the interviews as well as samples from before the onset of the illness.
We also collated data from Mammograms, ultrasound, CT scan, bone scan, MRI. PET, Markers, etc.
FINDINGS
•From the study of the person's handwriting we identified a number of factors more frequently present in the patients group than in the control group. These differences are statistically significant and reliable.
•Some of the characteristics identified in their handwriting were not related to the type of cancer present: these characteristics were descendents, variable pressure, torsions, bilateral eaten, twisting, brisement, augmented angles and changes in the tracing.
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Percentage of studies carried out•Of 4801graphological variables carried out, 3585 belong to the group of persons suffering from cancer and 1246 to the control group. Thus we can achieve a 75% for the cancer patients and 25% for the control group.
| FEATURE WITH CANCER / WITHOUT CANCER 1) Direction. Falling lines or foxtails. 230 / 73 2) Pressure: irregular in all aspects. 213 / 78 3) Dimension: Narrow between letters, Inhibited and suspended. 134 / 45 4) Twisted and broken forms, especially in ascenders and descenderswith spasmodic writing. 246 / 100 5) Trembling strokes, closed or congested. Tremors Hard to see with the naked eye. 196 / 61 6) Meaningless and unnecessary dots. 145 / 61 7) Strokes rigid in part or total. Squaring. 207 / 61 8) Angular handwriting. 207 / 100 9) Fireplace. 235 / 84 10) Triangular movements, especially in the ovals. 140 / 28 11) Jagged -edged on two sides. 274 / 11 12) Middle zone always with extras, mainly ovals. 257 / 84 13) Movement direction: regressive and/or mixed. 150 / 78 14) Letters and/or Word endings missing or suspended. 218 / 90 15) Wide starting stroke comes from lower zone to the left. 134 / 39 16) Paraph circles. 123 / 22 17) Stroke that crosses out signature for no reason. 151 / 73 18) Lower zone crossed out with paraphfor no reason. 185 / 50 19) Angular paraphto the left. 140 / 78 TOTAL NUMBER OF THESE FEATURES NOTED 3585 / 1216 |
CONCLUSIONS
•From the graphological point of view we found that in this type of patient, his/her handwriting showed elements of change consistent with the difficulties they were encountering,struggling to adapt to the physical changes caused by the illness and the treatment, as well as their emotions.
•For these reasons we believe that cancer patients should be given some form of psychotherapy treatment that would help them with the adaptation of their new condition.
•The analysis of a patient's handwriting proved to be a useful, economic and non-invasive technique that can help cancer patients in their follow up and treatment.
•This handwriting analysis is very accurate and reliable predicting factor of the disease It can benefit the patients to get a better follow up and the most appropriate treatment. We hope this test it will become standard procedure in cancer patients
MEDICAL CONCLUSION
•From the statistical analysis cancer patients were divided in two groups: those withgood prognosis and those with poor prognosis.
•The well-being of this last group was followed up more frequently; clinical and radiological studies were carried out in order to detect progression of the disease.
•Patients with poor prognosis had a shorter progression period and shorter disease free survival period. They needed more chemotherapy treatment, and maintenance treatment.
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Acknowledgment:
We are indebted to:
Prof. PacificoCristofanelli, UrbinoUniversity, Italy;
Prof. Juan Luis Allendedel Campo, President of Spanish Society of Graphopsicology.
Prof. Nigel Bradley, University of Westminster, London, UK for their continuing support and encouragement as well as for reviewing the presentation of our research in English, Italian and Spanish.
