A conference on Saturday, Nov. 18, hopes to help answer that question for doctors, health care workers, patients and their families.
Scholarships are available for patients and students.
The featured speaker of the conference will be Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, medical director of hematology and oncology at the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Cornell University Medical College in New York City. Patients and doctors are coming to realize the benefits of including alternative care and nutrition as vital components of total health care. Alternative medicine is not secondary medicine. Everything that can heal is an imperative, not an alternative. The conference is co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Duke Office of Continuing Medical Education and the University of North Carolina Program on Integrative Medicine.