title: Individualised homeopathy after cancer treatment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Increasingly, patients are surviving cancer and presenting with new health challenges, and there is greater demand for self-help and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore the benefits of a three-month course of individualised homeopathy (IH) for survivors of cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Small, community-based study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hampshire, UK.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifteen survivors of any type of cancer were recruited by a walk-in cancer support centre. Conventional treatment had to have taken place within the last three years. Patients scored their total, physical and emotional wellbeing using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy for Cancer (FACIT-G) before and after receiving four IH sessions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eleven women had statistically positive results for emotional, physical and total wellbeing based on FACIT-G scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings support previous research, suggesting CAM or IH could be beneficial for survivors of cancer.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poole
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011446:Prospective Studies