Traditional Chinese medicine could help ease the side effects of chemotherapy for cancer patients, according to a study carried out by researchers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, media reports said Saturday.
"A chemotherapy regimen can last a few months and many patients experience nausea, vomiting and fatigue," The Business Times quoted Dr. Tony Mok Shu Kam, professor of clinical oncology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as saying. "For some people, it can get quite bad."
Chemotherapy involves chemical agents to stop cancer cells from growing and is widely used in treatments.
Mok, who will speak on Sunday at British medical journal Lancet's forum in Singapore, said the latest study involved breast and colon cancer patients.
"All the selected patients were seen not only by an oncologist but by a traditional herbalist, who then prescribed an individualized herbal recipe," Mok told the newspaper.
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