Complementary / Alternative Treatments for Lung Cancer

What alternative therapies work for lung cancer? Unfortunately, the prognosis for many people who develop lung cancer is not very good. Western medicine has made strides in diagnosis and extending life, but fails far too often to achieve what we would hope. For this reason, many look to complementary or alternative lung cancer therapies, such as acupuncture and herbs, to fill the gap. Though practiced long before traditional medicine came to be, many of these therapies lack the kind of scientific studies that physicians look to when forming a treatment plan; making recommendations that stem from solid research is called “evidence-based medicine.”