Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine for Cancer Patients
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine for Cancer Patients
Efferth, T.; Lee, S.; Motoo, Y.; Schröder, S. | 2013 | ISBN: no | 295 pages | PDF | 27 MB
Efferth, T.; Lee, S.; Motoo, Y.; Schröder, S. | 2013 | ISBN: no | 295 pages | PDF | 27 MB
In recent decades, cancer treatment has made remarkable progress with targeted therapy applied on targeted subpopulation. hough the life expectancy of the general population is increasing, cancer is still one of the most common causes of death worldwide. he sophisticated treatments are oten accompanied with increased adverse events, and thesurvivalrateisstillunsatisfactoryinsomecancers.In advanced or recurrent cancers, the goal of cancer treatment is oten not curing the disease but prolonging survival time with good quality of life. he health-related quality of life is getting value as a cancer outcome, and the efect of earlypalliativecareisemphasizedimportantly. Nowadays medical information is easily accessed by patients, and most of patients are looking for treatments with less side efects and all available information to prolong survival time and to improve quality of life. herefore, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for cancer is increasingly being demanded by patients, and more physicians are getting interested in the use of CAM in cancer therapies.