Therapies ‘help cancer patients’

Complimentary therapy eases fatigue in cancer patients, according to research due to be presented at a Scottish university.
A conference on the role of alternative health treatments alongside traditional medicine at St Andrews University will hear how a programme including yoga and stress reduction techniques reduced tiredness in a group of breast cancer sufferers.

Dr Gunther Spahn, the head of integrative oncology at a department of Duisburg-Essen University, near Cologne, which specialises in combining homeopathic and conventional medicine, said the average fatigue score for the patients dropped by 1.1cm on a 10cm scale during the project.

He said: "I think it is really important that we are doing integrative medicine. We are not questioning the conventional treatment at all."
COMPLIMENTARY therapy eases fatigue in cancer patients, according to research due to be presented at a Scottish university today.
A conference on the role of alternative health treatments alongside traditional medicine at St Andrews University will hear how a programme including yoga and stress reduction techniques reduced tiredness in a group of breast cancer sufferers.

Dr Gunther Spahn, the head of integrative oncology at a department of Duisburg-Essen University, near Cologne, which specialises in combining homeopathic and conventional medicine, said the average fatigue score for the patients dropped by 1.1cm on a 10cm scale during the project.

He said: "I think it is really important that we are doing integrative medicine. We are not questioning the conventional treatment at all."