Makes useful and timely reading.

Here's a quote from your first link "...some show promise for easing symptoms. Touch therapies, mind-body approaches and acupuncture may reduce stress and relieve pain, nausea, dry mouth and possibly hot flashes, and are recommended by many top cancer experts. A recent study found that ginger capsules eased nausea if started days before chemotherapy.

Many hospitals offer aromatherapy, massage, meditation, yoga and acupuncture because patients want them and there is little risk of physical harm. They call this complementary or integrative medicine because it is in addition to — not in place of — conventional treatments."

I know I'd be trying some, if not all, of the above mentioned.

Much easier to avoid as many known carcinogens as possible and try to lead a healthy lifestyle.

A lot of people don't know not to take pills with grapefruit juice. This doesn't mean grapefruit juice isn't good for a person. It just means, don't take some things together.

With cancer, there are some things that work for some people, but not everything works for everyone. There needs to be a more open discourse where people who seek alternative therapies are treated as ignorant rather than people who are trying to control their own treatment.

Hopefully those who read that first link will gain some understanding of what Leslee Flasch must have gone through during her alternative treatments for rectal cancer, as her condition deteriorated from potentially curable to terminal stages.

Complementary therapies that offer some easing of symptoms are to be encouraged. What's alarming is when people are urged to use only herbal or other alternative treatments for cancer to the exclusion of evidence-based medicine.

"There needs to be a more open discourse where people who seek alternative therapies are treated as ignorant rather than people who are trying to control their own treatment.

I'm hoping you meant that the other way around.