By Paul Rincon
BBC News Online
Childhood cancer patients suffer less pain when placed under hypnosis, scientists have claimed.
Children who had been hypnotised in trials reported they had less pain from medical procedures as well as cancer-related pain.
Dr Christina Liossi, from University of Wales, Swansea, suggested there was even tentative evidence that hypnosis prolonged the lives of cancer patients.
In one study, 80 children were placed in four groups: two experimental groups who were treated with an anaesthetic and hypnosis.
Two control groups were just given the anaesthetic.
"All [40] children who used hypnosis with a local anaesthetic felt much less pain than children who were just given the local anaesthetic," said Dr Liossi.
The children, aged six to 16, were placed under hypnosis by experts and then taught to hypnotise themselves before they underwent procedures.
Children not treated with hypnosis were talked to and counselled instead.
Other evidence presented at the festival also supports the idea that hypnosis is a genuine physical state and that people are not simply deceiving themselves into thinking they are hypnotised.
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