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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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What Ails Us

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

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Tai Chi: A Gentle Way to Fight Stress

Tai chi helps reduce stress and anxiety. And it also helps increase flexibility and balance.

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Coping wth Fear of Recurrence

After treatment ends, one of the most common concerns survivors have is that the cancer will come back. The fear of recurrence is very real and entirely normal. Although you cannot control whether the cancer returns, you can control how much the fear of recurrence affects your life.

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This Is the Difference Between an Anxiety Attack and a Panic Attack

Plus expert tips on how to manage each of them.

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By Now, Burnout Is a Given

The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.

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What Health Experts Eat to Manage Stress

Even though we know stress has serious health consequences and can impact our energy, focus, and work performance, many of us still struggle. Food and lifestyle habits can make a significant difference, though.

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Why Does T’ai Chi Help Relieve Stress?

Practicing t’ai chi can improve our moods, as well as lessen the effects of depression and anxiety.

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TV Host Michelle Harris on How She Used These Methods to Get Her Anxiety Under Control

I began having anxiety attacks in high school. The scariest part was that I really didn’t know what they were at first. Because of my personality, which is more Type-A organized, it would have been easy to allow them to take over my life and become debilitating.

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The Link Between Stress and Depression … and the 10 Simple Words That Could Help

Neurological insights into how the brain processes stress, and how it can develop into depression, have led to new interventions.

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Yoga Is a Stress Reliever—But It Can Also Help Beat Addiction

In a 2017 pilot study out of UCLA, when adults who were addicted to cocaine or methamphetamines participated in an eight-week MBRP program that included some yoga practice, they experienced less substance use and showed improvements in the severity of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric...

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