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Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing 2018-09

The Subjective Dimension of Integrative Cancer Care: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Perspectives, Themes, and Observations of Experienced Doctors from the Area of Anthroposophic Medicine.

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Gunver S Kienle
Milena Mussler
Dieter Fuchs
Helmut Kiene

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Integrative cancer care (ICC) is used by approximately 50% of cancer patients to complement oncologic treatments and to address unmet needs. One ICC practice is anthroposophic medicine, integrating conventional and complementary cancer care. It specifically provides mistletoe therapy (MT), but also intensive counselling, natural remedies, creative and movement therapies, nursing procedures, nutrition, and others. The objective of this study was to explore perceptions, themes, goals, procedures, and observations of experienced AM doctors with regard to the subjective dimensions of ICC.

A guideline-based qualitative interview study was conducted with 35 AM doctors working in hospitals and office-based practices in Germany and other countries. Structured qualitative content analysis was applied to examine the data. Triangulation was done with published studies investigating patients' perspectives on AM and MT.

The interviewed doctors integrated conventional and holistic cancer concepts. Overarching therapeutic themes were: to enable patients to live with or overcome their disease, to find their own way through their disease, and to possibly reframe their situation. A broad variety of therapeutic goals were pursued, depending on the situation and priorities of the particular patient. Doctors described varying levels of patients' improved strength; increased vitality, thermal comfort, and recovery; relief from suffering, particularly in the areas of fatigue, appetite, sleep, pain, infections, and reactions to toxic anti-cancer therapies. The doctors also described how they perceived changes of patients' emotional level, their coping, autonomy, functional abilities, and finding their own way to deal with the disease. This is consistent with patients' perspectives described in published studies.

Themes, goals, and described benefit of ICC from doctors' and patients' perspective may be an important complementation of conventional cancer care, as it meets important needs, distresses and conditions of patients which often stay unmet and unrelieved. Further research should investigate these goals and procedures.

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