Fund whole-person cancer care and NHS research into complementary treatments — 34 signatures. Status: open.
Fund whole-person cancer care across England, including personalised testing, nutrition, exercise, rehabilitation and psychological support. Create NHS research pathways for promising complementary and repurposed treatments, with proven approaches adopted into NHS care.
Nearly 1 in 2 of us will be diagnosed with cancer. We believe access to whole-person support remains inconsistent, even though research supports parts of it: in a trial of 889 colon cancer patients, structured exercise after chemotherapy improved 5-year disease-free survival. We believe other promising complementary and repurposed treatments deserve the same scrutiny, as patients are already using them and nobody is properly recording what happens. We want funding to enable earlier multidisciplinary care alongside treatment, and NHS research into these treatments - proving what works, what doesn't, and what should reach patients.
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