NSWOG Complimentary Therapies

Professor Stephen Clarke

Members of the NSW Oncology Group: Complimentary Therapies include complementary therapists, researchers, conventional health professionals and community representatives. Chair, Professor Stephen Clarke guides activity in the context of the best evidence, information and world's best practice.

What is the Cancer Institute NSW doing to monitor the use of these therapies?

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Should complementary therapies form a part of cancer care? In order to allow patient choice and needs to be respected and using all the available evidence, reviews will be conducted by the Cancer Institute NSW to help answer this question.

The Cancer Institute NSW has established a Complementary Therapies Committee as part of the NSW Oncology Group (NSWOG). The Committee members include complementary therapists, researchers, conventional health professionals and community representatives.

The Committee has conducted a seminar Complementary Therapies in Cancer - What Health Professionals Need to Know, and is providing advice regarding current research into the existing scientific evidence to support the use of four key complementary therapies as an adjunct to cancer treatment - diet, meditation, massage and exercise.

The Committee has also participated in a Complementary Therapies Access Review undertaken by the Cancer Institute NSW to determine those complementary therapies currently offered to people with cancer through the NSW Area Health Services.

Click here to download a fact sheet about the review.

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