Integrative and alternative medicine in cancer treatment

Over the lasts seven years, since my own cancer diagnosis, I’ve watched as many other cancer patients utilized integrative mind-body techniques to battle their cancer, but also watched with alarm as patients turned away from mainstream treatment to ‘alternative’ modalities. A lot of the problem lies in not understanding the difference between integrative/complementary and alternative.

This article from the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, ‘Oncolog’ explains some of the finer points that cancer patients should know

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