Integrative Cancer Care

Key Points

  • In integrative cancer care, patients and their cancer treatment teams work together to find appropriate conventional and complementary therapies that have been shown to be effective and safe.
  • BCCT provides a tour of various types of cancer therapies and care.

What is integrative cancer care? The Society for Integrative Oncology offers this definition:

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Integrative oncologist and BCCT advisor Donald Abrams, MD, defines integrative cancer care in a 2014 presentation.
“Integrative oncology is a patient-centered, evidence-informed field of cancer care that utilizes mind and body practices, natural products, and/or lifestyle modifications from different traditions alongside conventional cancer treatments. Integrative oncology aims to optimize health, quality of life, and clinical outcomes across the cancer care continuum and to empower people to prevent cancer and become active participants before, during, and beyond cancer treatment.”1

We know so little about the mystery of life and the body that we need to consider all systems and explanations for their wisdom.

Wayne Jonas, MD

BCCT provides a tour of this field:

As our advisor Dr. Wayne Jonas has told us, "We know so little about the mystery of life and the body that we need to consider all systems and explanations for their wisdom." BCCT manifests this thought.

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