Specialist group for oncology

On 22 May 2019, the specialist group for oncology has been integrated into the Anthroposophical Society.

Anthroposophic Oncology is a specialist branch within the Medical Section that will from now on be embedded in the Anthroposophical Society. Its present members are haemato-oncologists from Switzerland and Germany. Two registrars who are training to be haemato-oncologists also belong to the group.

They strive to deepen their spiritual-scientific understanding of cancer and to derive therapies from this understanding. On the basis of this they also look together at meaningful ways of dealing with the confusing multitude of ‹targeted therapies› and other treatment methods prevalent in oncology today. Another essential task for the group members is the representation of anthroposophic oncology to the outside world, in the public and scientific discourse.

This kind of specialist work brings the Anthroposophical Society directly in contact with the practice of caring for cancer patients. The Anthroposophical Society, on the other hand, can also help to carry and support this work and include it in the wider context of the other anthroposophical spheres of life.

We are pleased that, after the specialist group for palliative medicine, the oncologists have also decided to form a specialist group that is integrated into the Anthroposophical Society.