Non Pharmacologic Intervention

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Treatment of cancer with non-pharmacologic interventions is an important and interesting topic. It would be interesting to see all the different types of non-pharmacologic treatment that are out there to treat cancer. In the population part of your PICO question you specify that patient with stage two and three cancer patients would be included, is there a specific type(s) of cancer that would be included or would it be a wide variety. What would you include in the kit or booklets that you would give out to the patients?
I think the topic of non-pharmacologic treatment is important for the treatment of cancer. As you stated the patient’s state that he or she does not want to feel out of it, which unfortunately, most of the narcotics make them

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