Can integrative oncology increase adherence to chemotherapy in advanced gynecologic cancer?
Complementary medicine is thought to be fraudulent by orthodox medical practitioners. Despite this, there has been a move around the world to integrative oncology, which seeks to be patient driven and non-exclusive of alternative therapy when requested, if not harmful.
This prospective non-randomised article looks at two groups of women with advanced gynaecological cancers and measures their quality of life during oncology treatment. One group of 61 women, had orthodox medical care, the other group of 73 women included integrated oncology in their treatment course.
Results from the study showed that those women who had integrative oncology care had better quality of life when undergoing taxane based chemo but this was less marked for platinum chemo. Those women in the integrative oncology group also were less likely to abscond from follow-up.
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