Extensive research shows that TCM is beneficial in alleviating pain caused by cancer. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, or MSKCC, a world-renowned cancer treatment and research institution, has locations throughout New York City, Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester. It endorses the benefits of combining Eastern and Western healthcare, especially to treat cancer. Jun J. Mao, chief of integrative medicine service at MSKCC, who specializes in acupuncture, said the center, whose acupuncture program started more than 20 years ago, has one of the oldest integrative medicine programs in the West.”Cancer patients often experience a range of physical and psychological symptoms such as pain, fatigue, insomnia, or neuropathy (diseases resulting from damaged or malfunctioning nerves) related to their chemotherapy,” Mao said. Many such patients do not gain adequate relief from Western medications, he added.”Eastern medicine is often derived from many years of _________. So, the treatments are often a little bit more ________, really acknowledging the ___________ and the relationship and interaction. I find that Eastern medicine, especially in the context of cancer treatment and survivorship, provides more benefit.”

A、empirical clinical practice; holistic; mind and body
B、experimental tradition; fundamental;  body and soul
C、positive science; radical; the doctrine of the mean
D、hands-on experience; temperate; cultivation of the qi
喵查答案：empirical clinical practice; holistic; mind and body