Holistic cancer care needs to consider several factors other than symptoms and medical conditions like age, genetics, lifestyle, and overall health. Integrative medicine helps do that by combining traditional and complementary medical practices to provide relief from symptoms.
Integrative oncologists often recommend their patients take various supplements that help nourish the body to better fight off any invading pathogens instead of focussing on the body's natural healing power alone.
These programs offer customized treatments for specific tumors through different approaches rather than one universal therapy like chemotherapy or radiation therapy which attacks a tumor's cells directly and can have harmful side effects with no significant improvement in outcome.
