Integrative Medicine in Interventional Oncology: A Virtuous Alliance

Abstract

This review aimed to identify the potential role of integrative medicine in interventional oncology. The music therapy; stress management techniques; guided imagery, including virtual reality; clinical hypnosis; and digital sedation may all be efficient on anxiety and pain during procedures performed in interventional oncology. Beyond pharmacological sedation, the implementation of integrative medicine to interventional oncology may, therefore, improve the support and care of cancer patients, which may further create a virtuous alliance.

Keywords

• cancer
• clinical hypnosis
• in which cancer patients can receive integrative medicine
• interventional oncology
• virtual reality