The Marriage of Conventional Cancer Treatments and Alternative Cancer Therapies

The terms “alternative” or “unconventional” have been used to describe any therapy used instead of conventional approaches. Conventional approaches, known as “standard” or “traditional” or “biomedical” approaches, have had broad application in Western medicine. Complementary and alternative medicine has been referred to as “integrative,” “integrated,” or “complementary” when therapies are combined with conventional approaches, such as those for cancer.