Integrative Medicine for People with Brain Cancer

Christine Wilson, cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the Abramson Cancer Center’s 2012- Focus on Brain Cancer Conference. In this blog, she discusses integrative medicine, and its role in those who have brain cancer.

The final panel of the day began with a series of yoga stretches that demonstrated how breathing and movement can relax even a roomful of people who have been listening to a long day of complicated, difficult information. The Integrative Medicine Program at Penn Medicine led by Jun Mao, MD, MSCE, offers a full range of medical and complementary approaches that treat the whole person and promote wellness for every person at every stage of the cancer journey.

These include:

• Nutrition
• Physical therapy and rehabilitation
• Acupuncture
• Yoga
• Reiki
• Psychosocial counseling and support groups
• Mindfulness training

"Integrative medicine is about achieving wellness. It takes a diverse group of people to help each of our patients achieve that overall wellbeing." Jun Mao

Learn More About Brain Cancer Treatment at Penn

For more information about Penn Medicine's brain cancer program visit www.penncancer.org. Find clinical trials for brain cancer, or any other cancer type in the search bar.

Learn more about the Focus On Brain Cancer conference, and to watch videos from the conference.