Current literature suggests a positive influence of additive classical homeopathy on global health and well-being in cancer patients. Besides encouraging case reports, there is little if any research on long-term survival of patients who obtain homeopathic care during cancer treatment. A recent study that was done in Austria with cancer patients who had undergone homeopathic treatment complementary to conventional anti-cancer treatment at the Outpatient Unit for Homeopathy in Malignant Diseases, Medical University Vienna revealed interesting data related to this integration process. Patients had breast cancer, glioblastoma, lung, cholangiocellular and pancreatic carcinomas, metastasized sarcoma, and renal cell carcinoma. Median overall survival was compared to expert expectations of survival outcomes by specific cancer type and was prolonged across observed cancer entities (p<0.001).
It was found that patients that were exposed to homeopathy had extended survival compared to expected survival outcomes.
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Extended survival time in this sample of cancer patients with fatal prognosis but additive homeopathic treatment is interesting. The researchers concluded that the relationship between homeopathic treatment and survival time requires prospective investigation in larger samples possibly using matched-pair control analysis or randomized trials.
LINK:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24731904
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