EVENT Integrative Oncology, the holistic approach to cancer care
Wednesday 17 March 2021 | 16.00 – 18.00 CET
Join us in this unique opportunity to hear expert speakers on Integrative Oncology – the holistic approach to cancer care.
Around 40% of the cancer patients use Complementary Medicine
Patients with cancer often use Complementary Medicine methods such as acupuncture, meditation, herbs, and dietary supplements in addition to their conventional cancer treatment. A systematic review shows that the use of these methods in Europe is around 40% and varies across the different European countries. Patients seek to optimize therapeutic benefits of conventional treatment, minimize cancer symptoms or adverse effects from treatment, and enhance general well-being.
Evidence-based incorporation of Complementary Medicine
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the use of integrative therapies as effective supportive care strategies in cancer patients. Integrative Oncology is an emerging evidence-based field, incorporating Complementary Medicine modalities into traditional cancer care. Many leading academic cancer centres in North America and Europe are developing Integrative Oncology centres to ensure that the research into the use of Complementary Medicine modalities is conducted with scientific rigour.
MEP Interest Group on Integrative Medicine and Health
The Interest Group promotes Integrative Medicine and Health in all European Parliament public health policy. Integrative Medicine and Health bring conventional biomedicine and complementary medicine together in a coordinated way, focuses on the whole person and considers the individual in their physical, psychological, spiritual, social and environmental context. It offers an inclusive approach that meets the demand of EU citizens for a holistic, patient-centred approach in medicine.
The event is hosted by the members of the MEP Interest Group on Integrative Medicine & Health:
Michèle Rivasi, Greens/EFA, France
Sirpa Pietikäinen, European People’s Party, Finland
Tilly Metz, Greens/EFA, Luxembourg
Eleonora Evi, Greens/EFA, Italy
Margrete Auken, Greens/EFA, Denmark
More about the MEP Interest Group on Integrative Medicine & Health can be read here.
Online event Integrative Oncology – the holistic approach to cancer care
Draft agenda of the online event on Integrative Oncology
Moderator Michele Rivasi MEP
- Welcome words Michele Rivasi
- Professor Dr Claudia Witt: Introduction into Integrative cancer care and its evidence base
- Dr Petra Voiss: Integrative care for women with breast cancer
- Dra Natàlia Eres: Integrative care of cancer patients in Barcelona, Spain
- Dr Jean-Lionel Bagot: Integrative care of cancer patients in Strasbourg, France
- Professor Dr Yvonne Samstag: Joining forces for integrative cancer care: hospitals, universities and government in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Reaction by Véronique Trillet-Lenoir MEP, Oncologist
- Reactions by members MEP Interest Group
- Reaction EUROCAM, the secretariat of the MEP Interest Group on Integrative Medicine and Health
- Q&A
- Conclusions by Michele Rivasi
Key speakers on Integrative Oncology – the holistic approach to cancer care
Professor Dr Claudia Witt, Professor of Medicine at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. She is director of the Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital of Zürich and is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics of the Charité University in Berlin, Germany.
Dr med Petra Voiss, Senior physician at the Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Integrative Oncology and at the Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Centre, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, academic teaching hospital of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She is a well-known researcher in the field of Integrative Medicine and Oncology.
Dra Natàlia Eres, Founder and Director of the Institute of Holistic Health, Medicine and Oncology IMOHE in Barcelona-Lleida, Spain. She is a medical oncology specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain and took training in several Complementary Medicine modalities.
Dr Jean-Lionel Bagot founded the first supportive care consultation in oncology in a hospital environment. Now he is a coordinating doctor at the department of Integrative Medicine of the Saint-Vincent Hospital Group in Strasbourg, and lecturer at the Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty in Strasbourg University, France.
Professor Dr Yvonne Samstag, Professor of Cellular Immunology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She is the spokesperson of the project “Research and Practice Initiative: Complementary & Integrative Health Care Baden-Württemberg (KIG)” and of the joint research project “Academic Centre for Complementary and Integrative Medicine” (AZKIM) funded by the Ministry of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Registration
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After registration, you will receive the link to the Livestream ‘Integrative Oncology – the holistic approach to cancer care’.
Registration deadline: 14 March 2021
More info: https://cam-europe.eu/online-event-integrative-oncology/
