Nearly half of cancer patients in England are being forced to cut back on food or heating in order to pay for their prescriptions drugs. Almost two-thirds miss out on simple leisure activities, like family days out, to cope with their medication costs.

A survey of nearly 500 cancer patients in England found that 44 percent were struggling to cope with drug costs.

Prescription charges were eliminated in Wales in 2007, and will be phased out in Scotland by 2011. Northern Ireland has frozen its charges while it considers whether to abolish them entirely. In England, however, the government has ruled out any move towards free prescriptions.

Research supports the idea that a few kind words from an oncologist can go a long way toward helping people with cancer understand their treatment, stick with it, cope better and maybe even have a better chance of recovery.

However, a study has found that doctors and patients aren’t communicating all that well about emotions.

Researchers recorded almost 400 conversations between oncologists and patients with advanced cancer. They listened for moments when patients expressed emotions like fear, anger or sadness, and for the doctors’ replies.

They team found that doctors used responses that encouraged patients to keep expressing their emotions only 22 percent of the time. Male doctors were worse at it than female ones: 48 percent of the men never used any of these responses, as opposed to 20 percent of the women.

Alternative medicine and radiotherapy can be used together as a treatment for certain diseases, particularly common with cancer patients. External beam therapy is one method that is widely used and the name came from the process itself. A machine emits a beam that concentrates on the affected body part, targeting the tumor, and the biggest amount o

Dr. Bob Koh, a Singapore alternative Medicine Doctor and a living testimony of such treatments are seeking Oncologist and doctors involved in Cancer work to join him to explore and promote this non-invasive treatment for cancer patients.

It needs extra care to cancer patients in order that the patients get better soonly. Beside medical treatment from doctors, patients should take care the daily nutrition. And also cancer patients can choose herbal therapy as alternative medical treatment.