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Acupuncture a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
Our colleagues over at Mesothelioma.com contacted BIOM to share an article which makes the case for what we’ve been saying for years: Oriental Medicine has a role to play in the broad range of health care.
More people worldwide use acupuncture than any other type of health care or treatment.
Key points include:
Doctors have been increasingly integrating acupuncture into their palliative cancer treatment programs.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that more people worldwide utilize acupuncture than any other type of health care or treatment.
The WHO recognizes acupuncture as an effective method for helping individuals deal with side effects like pain and fatigue stemming from chemotherapy and other cancer-related treatments.
Doctors are using acupuncture to offset the side-effects of chemotherapy and other cancer-related treatments.
So it’s interesting to see that doctors, nurses and other health professionals are using acupuncture as part of their everyday cancer care.
You can read the full article below.
Acupuncture a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
Complementary therapies, while not given the attention that more traditional cancer therapies may receive, are perhaps equally important while undergoing treatment for certain types of cancer. Patients diagnosed with difficult to treat malignancies will often use these types of therapies in conjunction with traditional surgical, chemotherapeutic, or radiology techniques to form a more comprehensive and effective treatment regimen. Among the most important and effective alternative therapies utilized by those diagnosed with cancer is acupuncture.