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Article: TRYING EVERYTHING More and more cancer patients seek out ancient Chinese remedies to augment modern medicine
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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For Ingrid Schorr, 36, an actor and writer who lives in
Arlington, the bomb dropped last September: a totally unexpected
diagnosis of breast cancer.
The diagnosis was traumatic enough, she says, but she also felt
"desperate and sad" about having to undergo chemotherapy. She knew
it would leave her weak and drained.
Her instincts were clear. She agreed to fight cancer with the
harsh tools of Western medicine, the so-called "slash, burn and
poison" approach of surgery, radiation and chemo.
But she also vowed to try to protect her body against that
onslaught with what she hoped would be the gentler, more supportive
tools of ancient herbs and modern nutrition as well.
And she didn't want some ...