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In Treatment For Breast Cancer: Managing Your Medical Care

How To Consider "Complementary" or "Alternative" Treatments

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So called "alternative" or "complimentary" treatments such as massage or bio-feedback can make you feel better and help cope with treatment. Together with traditional medicine, they may also work on your cancer.

These treatments should only be considered in addition to medical treatment - not as a replacement or "alternative."  There is no scientific proof that any alternative treatment works against breast cancer.

For information about each complementary therapy and what medical evidence indicates it does or does not do with respect to cancer, see American Cancer Society Complete Guide To Complementary & Alternative Cancer Therapies $24.95 including shipping. The book can be ordered at: www.cancer.org offsite link.

To learn whether to use a particular complementary treatment, and, if so, how to choose the best practitioner, see Complementary Treatments

NOTE: Be sure to discuss any complementary treatments you are considering with your doctor - preferably before starting.


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