First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2009:320-5. doi: 10.1182/asheducation-2009.1.320.
Integrative medicine (IM) has become a major challenge for doctors and nurses, as well as psychologists and many other disciplines involved in the endeavor to help patients to better tolerate the burden of toxic therapies and give patients tools so they can actively participate in their "salutogenesis." IM encompasses psycho-oncology, acupuncture, and physical and mental exercises to restore vital capacities lost due to toxic therapies; furthermore, it aims to replenish nutritional and metabolic deficits during and after cancer treatment. IM gains an ever increasing importance in the face of the rapidly growing number of cancer survivors demanding more than just evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. IM has to prove its value and justification by filling the gap between unproven methods of alternative medicine, still used by many cancer patients, and academic conventional medicine, which often does not satisfy the emotional and spiritual needs of cancer patients.
整合医学（IM）对医生和护士，以及参与帮助患者更好地承受毒性治疗负担的心理学家和许多其他学科来说，都是一项重大挑战，并为患者提供工具，使他们能够积极参与他们的“健康促进”。IM 包括心理肿瘤学、针灸和身心锻炼，以恢复因毒性治疗而丧失的生命能力；此外，它旨在在癌症治疗期间和之后补充营养和代谢缺陷。面对越来越多的癌症幸存者要求不仅仅是基于证据的诊断和治疗策略，IM 的重要性日益增加。IM 必须通过填补替代医学中未经证实的方法（许多癌症患者仍在使用这些方法）与学术常规医学之间的空白来证明其价值和合理性，学术常规医学往往不能满足癌症患者的情感和精神需求。
