Complementary Therapies and Side Effects
Posted 6/13/2011
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This is a podcast/PDF from Living Beyond Breast Cancer about managing treatment side effects with complementary therapies. The speaker, Barrie Cassileth, MD, is a well known expert in this field, and this is quite interesting. In my own experience, lots of women use acupuncture, meditation, massage, and Reiki to help themselves through treatment--all potentially useful with no harmful side effects. The rule continues to be to check with your doctor before using anything that you swallow (which might interfere with the chemotherapy or other drugs).
Here is the introduction and then a link:
Complementary Medicine: Managing Side Effects
When: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Download the podcast and slides from the program.
During our May teleconference, Barrie R. Cassileth, MS, PhD, discusses the benefits of integrative medicine for breast cancer care and how you safely implement these techniques in your life. After listening to this teleconference, you will:
- Understand the role of complementary medicine in your treatment
- Learn to safely manage side effects using proven methods such as herbs, yoga, acupuncture and mind-body therapies
- Explore how research is analyzed, areas where more research is needed, and how to understand information presented by the media
About Our Speaker
Dr. Cassileth has worked in complementary medicine for more than 25 years. In 1999, she created the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. This program offers both inpatient therapies and outpatient services, and studies the ability of specific complementary therapies to reduce symptoms associated with cancer and its treatments and the use of botanicals for potential antitumor effects. Dr. Cassileth is the founding president of the International Society for Integrative Oncology.
http://www.lbbc.org/Events/2011-05-03-Complementary-Medicine
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