Fighting cancer with alternative therapies An Inpiring story
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There is not, however, and probably never will be, a “golden bullet” – a cure-all for the array of cancers that threaten us. Cancer is a vast and ever-changing problem, and we must keep finding new ways to confront it. We will rightly continue to turn to the medical profession first.
But there is a growing number of people in Britain seeking alternative approaches too, and making their voices heard. It’s a controversial area polarising opinion.
According to the breast-cancer charity The Haven, 89 per cent of its service users found that non-medical, complementary therapies (including herbal medicine and nutritional, energy, touch and mind-body therapies) were “essential” to their recovery.
Sheila Dillon, the presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme and a cancer sufferer, has recently spoken out against the NHS’s refusal to accept that diet matters in the fight against cancer.
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