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Types of Complementary Therapies

By Cancer.net — 2021

When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”

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Studying Abroad: Culture Shock

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How Cancer Can Affect Relationships—Macmillan Cancer Support

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After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane threw herself into research. Already medically knowledgeable as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive.

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Emotional Complications of Breast Cancer by Janet Harrison. (Especially Anger, Distress, and Asking for Help.)

Janet talks about feeling angry, feeling lost in the system, feeling isolated after initial treatment. Janet mentions benefits of psycho-oncology team (psychosocial care), voluntary services at Coping with Cancer (Helen Webb House) and also contacting Samaritans when desperate.

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Calories―too few or too many―are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand.

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