The impact by reliability growth in stress intervention for non-metastatic breast cancer through stochastic model Dr. Kumar P. Senthil1,*, Ms. Umamaheswari N.2,** 1Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rajah Serfoji Government Arts College, Thanjavur-613 005, Tamilnadu, India 2Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Humanities, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Institute of Technology, Samayapuram-621 112, India *Email: senthilscas@yahoo.com
**Email: maheshreji11@gmail.com
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 60G05, 60K10, 62N05 Online published on 10 February, 2015. Abstract The paper studies the effects of a cognitive-behavioral stress management (CBSM) intervention in order to examine intervention related changes in serum cortisol among breast cancer patients over a 12-month period in women who were undergoing treatment for non metastatic breast cancer. The most widely used traditional reliability growth tracking model and reliability growth projection model are both included as International Standard and National Standard models. These traditional models address reliability growth based on failure modes surfaced during the test. This paper presents an Extended Model that addresses this practical situation and allows for preemptive corrective actions. Top Keywords Cortisol, Breast cancer, relaxation, stress management, extended reliability growth model. Top |