Battling Side Effects with Alternative Medicine

The above referenced article discusses how a children’s hospital in Canada is incorporating alternative medicine to help alleviate the side effects of some cancer drugs on their patients.

By coupling the chemotherapy with alternative medicine, the patients were better able to tolerate the drugs and incurred fewer side effects. The article cites the assistance of an herbalist, acupuncturist and massage therapist in addition to others who helped the children battle the side effects of chemotherapy.