Do complementary therapies reduce the odour from malignant wounds?

What is it about?

This paper reviews the evidence for the use of complementary and alternative therapies to reduce odour in malignant wounds.

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Why is it important?

Patients and clinicians say that odour is one of the worst aspects of these wounds and yet is it one of the least researched areas. There are many non-pharmacological interventions that claim to reduce odour and therefore it was important to know what the evidence base for them is.