Non-pharmacological therapies for cancer patients in Portugal and Brazil: an experience report.
Leonel Dos Santos SilvaAna Filipa Domingues SousaDulce Helena Ferreira de CarvalhoLuciana Puchalski KalinkePublished in: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P (2023)
In both countries, nurses have made efforts to implement non-pharmacological therapies. While in the Portuguese reality they have been formally institutionalized in care, in Brazil the therapies take place with voluntary work and through intervention research. This report can encourage the translation of autonomous practice to clinical studies for proposing evidence of therapies in Integrative Oncology.