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Patrick Dempsey on Complementary Therapies

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Yoga and Reiki can have great benefits for patients undergoing cancer treatment, according to Patrick Dempsey.

Patrick Dempsey, actor, cancer advocate and Breakaway from Cancer® Ambassador, discusses complementary therapies that can help patients with cancer, such as yoga and Reiki.

Dempsey mentions that these were some of the tools that his late mother used while going through ovarian cancer. Now Dempsey offers them at the Dempsey Center, which he founded to improve the lives of those affected by cancer.

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