Integrative Oncology: Complementary Therapies for Cancer Survivors

摘要: Cancer survivors experience a wide range of symptoms during and following completion treatment, some these may persist for years or even decades. While pharmacologic treatments relieve many symptoms, they too produce difficult side effects. Complementary therapies are noninvasive, inexpensive, useful in controlling improving quality life, be accessed by patients themselves. Rigorous scientific research has produced evidence that acupuncture, massage therapy, music, mind-body effectively safely reduce physical emotional symptoms. These provide favorable risk-benefit ratio permit cancer to help manage their own care.