Yoga. Acupuncture. Meditation. If you’ve been treated for breast cancer, you’ve probably heard words like these mentioned. Maybe your local hospital offers therapeutic massage to chemo patients, or Reiki treatments to women heading into surgery. All of these terms come under a single heading: complementary and alternative medicine.
Now, you may already be skeptically shaking your head, thinking, “No way am I going to send away to Ecuador for some kind of weird herbs, or let some strange...
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Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Complementary Cancer Therapies
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