Integrative medicine is a synthesis of complementary therapies and mainstream cancer care.
This combined effort to bring about cure or remission with mainstream treatment while reducing symptoms and distress with complementary care has great appeal to lymphoma and other cancer patients. Complementary therapies are intended to reduce pain, relieve anxiety, and enhance quality of life. They do not cure disease. However, they are by definition unproved or disproved. They would be used in all hospitals.