Complimentary vs Alternative

carol1949

I think there is still a huge misconception and lack of understanding regarding complimentary therapy.

Complimentary therapies are meant to be used along with "traditional" therapies and can actually enhance the effectiveness of traditional therapies.  Dr. Patrick Quillin talks about exactly how many supplements do that.  Not only does he explain it, but gives studies to document it.

Alternative means "instead of" traditional therapy.

The moral of the message is use the tradtional chemo, etc... but if you are not getting good results... you have nothing to lose by adding complimentary therapies.  I want to fight this with everything possible.  It seems obvious by our statistics, that chemo and rads can only do so much, otherwise, we would see total cures routinely. Of cuorse there are no guarantees either way... but I want the entire arsenal!

Anonymous

Thanks Carol for the definition.

I totally agree chemo and rads are not the cure all.