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- Cancer-Fighting Kitchen Course for Commonweal
By Rebecca Katz
Publisher: Commonweal
Access: free
CFK is a comprehensive course including detailed information and delicious recipes, along with culinary skills and techniques that will support a nourishing experience during treatment and recovery. Receive access to this course free of charge by joining BCCT's community.
- Commonweal Cancer Help Program
Publisher: Commonweal
Access: purchase
The Commonweal Cancer Help Program (CCHP) is a week-long retreat for people with cancer. CCHP's goal is to help participants live better and, where possible, longer lives. CCHP addresses the unmet needs of people with cancer.
- Healing Circles
Publisher: Commonweal
Access: free
Healing Circles Global has shared a new website to explore ways of deepening our capacity to heal, alleviating our suffering, and finding meaning in both challenge and joy. Find online circles to connect with others.
- Healing Kitchens Institute
Health begins with what you eat—with the foods you choose and the way you prepare them. Healing Kitchens Institute cooking programs bring food and nutrition education to all audiences—from young parents who want their kids to have a healthy start, to those living with chronic conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, to physicians who want to better counsel their patients on nutrition.
- The New School at Commonweal
Publisher: Commonweal
The New School at Commonweal has recorded dozens of high quality educational and training podcasts and videos on cancer and many other topics.
Top videos and podcasts
- Body of Wonder
Publisher: University of Arizona
Access: free
Body of Wonder is a podcast by Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Victoria Maizes. Body of Wonder offers insightful conversations with thought-provoking doctors, specialists, authors, and researchers.
In Body of Wonder we dive into ideas that are changing medicine, hear compelling stories, and explore age-old wisdom backed by modern science. We discuss the latest research and how it has a powerful effect in our lives.
- Brian Bouch: Integrative Oncology, Part 1
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: April 18, 2018
Access: free
Brian Bouch, MD, retired several years ago from an integrative medicine practice in Sonoma, California. After he received a difficult cancer diagnosis, he developed a specialty in integrative oncology. Dr. Bouch was the first medical director of Commonweal. In three videos, he talks with Michael Lerner about how he developed his practice, used certain therapies and how he worked with people with cancer. In this first of three videos, Bouch discusses his diagnosis and integrative therapies he has used. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Brian Bouch Integrative Oncology, Part 1.
- Brian Bouch: Integrative Oncology, Part 2
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: April 18, 2018
Access: free
Brian Bouch, MD, retired several years ago from an integrative medicine practice in Sonoma, California. After he received a difficult cancer diagnosis, he developed a specialty in integrative oncology. Dr. Bouch was the first medical director of Commonweal. In three videos, he talks with Michael Lerner about how he developed his practice, used certain therapies and how he worked with people with cancer. In this second of three videos, Bouch discusses detoxification and integrative therapies he has used. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Brian Bouch Integrative Oncology, Part 2.
- Brian Bouch: Integrative Oncology, Part 3
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: April 18, 2018
Access: free
Brian Bouch, MD, retired several years ago from an integrative medicine practice in Sonoma, California. After he received a difficult cancer diagnosis, he developed a specialty in integrative oncology. Dr. Bouch was the first medical director of Commonweal. In three videos, he talks with Michael Lerner about how he developed his practice, used certain therapies and how he worked with people with cancer. In this third of three videos, Bouch discusses breast and prostate cancers, how to make the most of chemotherapy and more. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Brian Bouch Integrative Oncology, Part 3.
- Dean Ornish, MD: Symington 2017
Publisher: The Lord Symington Foundation with Healing Circles and The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: 2017
Access: free
Dr. Ornish presents results regarding his integrative programs for heart disease, prostate cancer and general healing in this 52-minute video. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Dean Ornish Symington 2017.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 1, An Introduction to Integrative Cancer Care
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 1. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 2, Integrative Cancer Care: The Role of Nutrition
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 2. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 3, Integrative Cancer Care: Rational Use of Natural Supplements
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. This video presents Integrative Cancer Care: Rational Use of Natural Supplements. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 3. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 4, Cannabis in Integrative Cancer Care
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 4. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Dwight McKee, MD: 40 Years Practicing Integrative Cancer Medicine, Part 1
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: February 3, 2016
Access: free
Dr. Dwight McKee joins The New School Host Michael Lerner in a day-long conversation and presentations. McKee is one of the truly significant integrative oncologists with a long and interesting history of engagement in the field. He talks about his book After Cancer Care and principles of integrative oncology. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Dwight McKee, MD: 40 Years Practicing Integrative Cancer Medicine, Part 1.
- Dwight McKee, MD: 40 Years Practicing Integrative Cancer Medicine, Part 2
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: February 3, 2016
Access: free
Dr. Dwight McKee joins The New School Host Michael Lerner in a day-long conversation and presentations. McKee is one of the truly significant integrative oncologists with a long and interesting history of engagement in the field. He talks about his book After Cancer Care and principles of integrative oncology. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Dwight McKee, MD: 40 Years Practicing Integrative Cancer Medicine, Part 2.
- Keith Block MD Speaks about a New Model of Integrative Cancer Treatment
Publisher: McDougall Advanced Study Weekend
Date Published: September 24, 2012
Access: free
In this brief video, Keith Block, MD, talks about his program, stressing getting the biochemical environment in order, then how to build resilience biochemically, molecularly and clinically. He discusses hope, plus faith that there’s something people can do, even under desperate situations.
- Keith Block, MD: Life over Cancer—Achieving A Survivor’s Edge
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: 2016
Access: free
This 22-minute video from Keith Block, MD, discusses his approach to cancer treatment, emphasizing being equipped, planning and care, and how to get into a remission and stay in a remission. He introduces circadian rhythms and balancing them, goes over the hallmarks of cancer, and nutrition. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Keith Block, MD: Life over Cancer—Achieving A Survivor’s Edge.
- Keith Block: My Activity
Publisher: EmpowHER
Date Published: 2009
Access: free
Keith Block, MD, focuses on treating the patient as a whole person rather than simply treating the diagnosis. This series of short videos presents his unique and truly integrative approach to cancer treatment which encompasses traditional and complementary medicine delivered in a caring environment.
- Keith Block: New Roads to Health: Life over Cancer
Publisher: Henry Mayo Clinic
Date Published: December 8, 2015
Access: free
In this 19-minute video Dr. Keith Block discusses why an individualized foundation for health is important. Dr. Block presents his model of care: three spheres: diet and lifestyle interventions, biochemical terrain, and tumor growth progression pathways. He also Lists the 11 hallmarks of cancer in three categories: metabolic, molecular and microenvironment, plus integrative therapies to address them.
- Mark Renneker, MD: Medical Advocacy for Cancer Patients, Part 1
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: June 5, 2015
Access: free
This full-length video, part 1 of 2, presents a special day-long training with one of the foremost authorities on clinical advocacy for people with cancer. Dr. Mark Renneker has a unique medical practice that he describes as clinical advocacy. He specializes in working with patients and families who are facing complex medical situations. He doesn’t take on their care, but helps them leave no stone unturned, as to learning about and pursuing all possible diagnostic and treatment options, including experimental, mainstream, alternative, and integrative medical strategies. Most of his work is by phone, with patients from across the country and around the world. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Mark Renneker, MD: Medical Advocacy Part 1.
- Mark Renneker, MD: Medical Advocacy for Cancer Patients, Part 2
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: June 5, 2015
Access: free
This full-length video, part 2 of 2, presents a special day-long training with one of the foremost authorities on clinical advocacy for people with cancer. Dr. Mark Renneker has a unique medical practice that he describes as clinical advocacy. He specializes in working with patients and families who are facing complex medical situations. He doesn’t take on their care, but helps them leave no stone unturned, as to learning about and pursuing all possible diagnostic and treatment options, including experimental, mainstream, alternative, and integrative medical strategies. Most of his work is by phone, with patients from across the country and around the world. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Mark Renneker, MD: Medical Advocacy Part 2.
- Moss Report Podcast
By Ralph Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
The Moss Report Podcast features in-depth conversations about alternative, complementary, and innovative cancer treatments. Podcast host Ralph W. Moss, PhD, speaks with doctors, researchers, patients and health professionals from around the world.
- Navigating Integrative Prostate Cancer Care
Publisher: Society for Integrative Oncology
Date Published: August 27, 2020
BCCT Senior Researcher Laura Pole, RN, MSN, OCNS, and integrative oncologist and BCCT advisor Donald Abrams, MD, explore integrative prostate cancer care in this webinar from the Society for Integrative Oncology.
- Podcast: Going Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies
Publisher: iThrive Plan
Date Published: February 5, 2019
Access: free
On this episode, Karolyn talks with Dr. Michael Lerner and Laura Pole about the new online resource they created called Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies (bcct.ngo). Listeners will learn about integrative healing practices that go beyond conventional cancer care.
- Rachel Naomi Remen, MD: Basics of Discovery Model Learning
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: April 11, 2015
Access: free
Rachel gives an overview (and some experiences) of the discovery model curriculum for medical students, The Healer’s Art, which is presently taught annually at more than 80 medical schools in the United States and in seven other countries. Rachel has developed this experiential model to create a community of inquiry in which mutual healing, clarification of deep meaning and values, and personal transformation become accessible. See an outline of topics with timestamps: Rachel Naomi Remen, MD: Basics of Discovery Model Learning.
- Ted Schettler: The Ecology of Breast Cancer
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: November 9, 2013
Breast-cancer is not one disease, but many. The causes are many as well. In this podcast, TNS host Michael Lerner converses with Ted Schettler, MD, MPH—a leader in the development of the “ecological paradigm of health.” His book The Ecology of Breast Cancer offers a fresh perspective integrating stress, diet, exercise, toxic chemical exposures, electromagnetic fields and more.
- Using Food as Medicine
Publisher: George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences Office of Integrative Medicine and Health
Date Published: July 2019
Health-supportive chef (and BCCT senior researcher) Laura Pole, RN, MSN, OCNS, discusses how to make food an important part of cancer care.
- Webinar: Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies: An online resource for integrative cancer care
Publisher: Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians
Date Published: April 25, 2019
Access: free
In this recorded webinar, the creators of Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies describe how this tool can be used in clinical practice. A PDF of the slides includes active links.
Resources we use most frequently
- About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
Publisher: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Access: free
This tool, for the public as well as healthcare professionals, can help visitors determine the value of using common herbs and other dietary supplements. This site provides visitors with objective and evidence-based information that can be helpful in judging a product’s traditional and proven uses, potential benefits, possible adverse effects, and interactions with other herbs or medicines.
- After Cancer Care
By Gerald Lemole, MD; Pallav Mehta, MD; and Dwight McKee, MD
Publisher: Rodale Books
Date Published: August 25, 2015
Access: purchase
According to Drs. Lemole, Mehta, and McKee, your choices in diet, exercise, and even relationships can help determine your propensity for relapse. With more than three decades of post-cancer-care experience, the doctors create practical takeaways based on science so that readers will drastically improve their quality of life to enjoy many years of cancer-free serenity.
- Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six
By Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Date Published: 2018
Access: purchase
Introducing the concept of the “Mix of Six,” Cohen and Jefferies make an informed case that building social and emotional support; managing stress; improving sleep, exercise, and diet; and minimizing exposure to environmental toxins work together to promote an optimal environment for health and well-being.
- Beyond the Magic Bullet: The Anti-Cancer Cocktail
By Raymond Chang, MD
Publisher: Square One Publishers
Date Published: 2012
Conventional medicine’s core strategy has been re-examined, and a new, potentially more effective approach has emerged―one that combines the best of Eastern wisdom with Western science. This book takes a penetrating look at this bold new way of treating cancer.
- CAM-Cancer
Publisher: CAM-Cancer Collaboration
Access: free
CAM-Cancer is an open-access, nonprofit web resource providing health professionals with evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for cancer. This resource aims to prepare and disseminate information for health professionals based on the best available evidence in order to assist them in making informed treatment decisions together with their patients. Entries do not include dosing or administration guidelines.
- Cancer.Net
Publisher: American Society of Clinical Oncology
Access: free
This site has a wide array of information for people with cancer and their families and caregivers, including types of cancer, navigating cancer care, coping with cancer, survivorship and more.
- Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer
By Michael Lerner
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1994
Access: free
This book is written for you—someone with cancer who wants to understand the many choices available to you in both conventional medicine and alternative therapies. It is also for your family members, friends, and healthcare professionals, but primarily it is for you. It is a book about how to find your way through the unfamiliar and often frightening territory that you face when you are diagnosed with cancer.
- ConsumerLab.com
Access: subscription
This site publishes independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals identify the best quality health and nutrition products.
- Integrative Oncology, 2nd Edition
By Donald I. Abrams, MD, and Andrew T. Weil, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2014
Access: purchase
This book provides complementary interventions to conventional cancer care, Including the hot topics of cannabinoids, antioxidents, energy medicine. and nutrition. New chapters have been added to this edition.
- Life over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
By Keith I. Block, MD
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Date Published: 2009
Access: purchase
Dr. Keith Block describes the Block program for fighting cancer to people who are at different places along the cancer continuum. Dr. Block’s evidence-based program is explained in easy-to-understand language that patients can implement both by themselves as well as with the assistance of their healthcare provider. Dr. Block includes in-depth descriptions of lifestyle practices as well as complementary therapies that are designed to enhance conventional cancer treatment, minimize side effects, and possibly prevent recurrence.
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Access: subscription
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), a not-for-profit alliance of 27 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. NCCN is dedicated to improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of cancer care so that patients can live better lives. Through the leadership and expertise of clinical professionals at NCCN Member Institutions, NCCN develops resources that present valuable information to the numerous stakeholders in the healthcare delivery system.
- Natural Medicines Database
Publisher: Therapeutic Research Center
Access: freesubscription
This website provides a searchable database of natural medicines, targeting health professionals, researchers, patients and the public. It is not specific to cancer, but visitors may search for information by cancer type. Natural medicines summaries include dosing and administration information.
- Naturopathic Oncology, 3rd Edition
By Neil McKinney, BSc, ND
Publisher: Liaison Press
Date Published: 2016
Access: purchase
Informed by 30 years of practice and teaching naturopathic and traditional Chinese medicine, this guide to clinical success with cancer adds new therapies, new chapters, refinements of protocols, expanded references.
- Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Publisher: National Cancer Institute
Access: free
This open-access site contains various resources for patients and professionals related to complementary approaches and cancer: A workbook for patients to use in exploring approaches and talking with their doctors, a guide to help patients make informed choices, FAQs and information on how to read safety warnings, selecting a complementary practitioner, paying for complementary approaches, evaluating medical resources on the Internet, and finding integrative medicine programs.
- PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries
Publisher: National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Access: free
These cancer information summaries from the National Cancer Institute give brief descriptions of selected integrative, alternative and complementary therapies and the evidence supporting their use.
- The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition
By Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, and Karolyn Gazella
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Date Published: 2010
Access: purchase
Naturopathic oncologist Lise Alschuler and health writer Karolyn Gazella have written The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing for those who have been diagnosed with cancer and their loved ones. “Compassionate while reflecting the most recent science, this book offers a thorough examination of integrative cancer prevention and treatment in an accessible and practical manner. Readers will develop a better understanding of what cancer is, what causes it, how to best prevent it, and how to include complementary therapies into their treatment.” Naturopathic therapies are provided for a number of specific cancers.
- The Moss Reports
By Ralph Moss, PhD
Access: purchase
The Moss Reports contain comprehensive, up-to-date information on conventional, integrative, experimental, complementary, dietary and alternative cancer treatments, detailed for the 27 most common cancer diagnoses.
Selected websites
- About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
Publisher: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Access: free
This tool, for the public as well as healthcare professionals, can help visitors determine the value of using common herbs and other dietary supplements. This site provides visitors with objective and evidence-based information that can be helpful in judging a product’s traditional and proven uses, potential benefits, possible adverse effects, and interactions with other herbs or medicines.
- American Institute for Cancer Research Blog
Publisher: American Institute for Cancer Research
Access: free
- Americans for Safe Access
Publisher: Americans for Safe Access
Access: free
The mission of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is to ensure safe and legal access to cannabis (marijuana) for therapeutic use and research. This website provides information about medical cannabis for both patients and healthcare professionals. Resources for patients covers how to become a state-authorized patient, basic science and legal rights, how to safely use medical cannabis and how to get involved with medical cannabis advocacy. Is not specific to cannabis use in cancer.
- Anticancer Fund
Publisher: Anticancer Fund
Access: free
This open-access site, based in the Netherlands, brings scientists, clinicians, policymakers, patients and other stakeholders together to promote promising treatment avenues with little commercial value but high patient interest. The organization also freely informs patients about treatment options and available clinical trials relevant to their specific cases and personally answers all therapy-related questions from patients and their families.
- Anticancer Lifestyle Program
Publisher: Anticancer Lifestyle Foundation
Access: purchase
This program offers a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program course for cancer survivors and those who seek to reduce their risk of cancer and other chronic illnesses. Topics include diet, fitness, mindset, change and environment.
- Atlas CareMap
Publisher: Atlas of Caregiving
Access: free
This site includes videos and resources for creating an Atlas CareMap, which is a drawing showing all the people and institutions involved in providing care for an individual. a CareMap is a process for self-reflection and action and a catalyst for conversation. It can help identify gaps, define roles and communicate with others.
- BRECONDA: Breast Reconstruction Decision Aid
Publisher: Macquarie University and Western Sydney Local Health District
Access: free
BRECONDA is an online tool that aims to help women make decisions about breast reconstruction.
- British Society for Integrated Oncology
The BSIO is the leading professional organization for integrative oncology in the UK. Their goal is to promote the integration of conventional, nutritional, lifestyle and complementary medicine to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. For professionals, the BSIO facilitates communication, provides resources for education and disseminates research and evidence to promote effective holistic care.
- CAM-Cancer
Publisher: CAM-Cancer Collaboration
Access: free
CAM-Cancer is an open-access, nonprofit web resource providing health professionals with evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for cancer. This resource aims to prepare and disseminate information for health professionals based on the best available evidence in order to assist them in making informed treatment decisions together with their patients. Entries do not include dosing or administration guidelines.
- Cancer Commons
Access: free
Cancer Commons is a not-for-profit network of patients, physicians and scientists that help identify the best conventional care options for treating an individual’s cancer. Each case builds on collective knowledge, enabling more accurate personalized options for the next community member. Cancer Commons strives to connect and leverage the world’s cancer knowledge and resources to help patients and their physicians make treatment decisions.
- Cancer Research UK
Access: free
Find out what complementary therapies and alternative therapies are, why people with cancer might use them and whether they are safe. This website includes a collection of many different complementary and alternative therapies used by people with cancer, with detailed information and research.
- Cancer Support Community
Access: free
This website provides resources for cancer patients, including an online support community; a cancer experience registry; and information about risk factors, symptoms, treatments and side effects of treatment.
- Cancer.Net
Publisher: American Society of Clinical Oncology
Access: free
This site has a wide array of information for people with cancer and their families and caregivers, including types of cancer, navigating cancer care, coping with cancer, survivorship and more.
- CanHEAL
Publisher: Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Date Published: December 1969
Access: free
This integrative cancer care toolkit has been developed to help those recently diagnosed feel less overwhelmed, learn about approaches to support their treatment and overall well-being, and gain access to useful resources.
- Cannabidiol Life: What is CBD?
Access: free
This website shares information and research being conducted on CBD with a goal to change the negative perception that surrounds cannabidiol, a naturally occurring cannabinoid that is found in the stalk, seeds, and flowers of cannabis plants.
- Clean Soups Course
By Rebecca Katz
Is your objective to lose weight or boost your immune system? Simply add soup! During the COVID pandemic, BCCT advisor Rebecca Katz is making her Clean Soups course available at no cost.
- Clinical Trials and Noteworthy Treatments for Brain Tumors
Publisher: Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information, Inc.
Access: free
This website posts information on books, studies and other resources related to brain tumors.
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Health Professionals
Publisher: National Cancer Institute
Access: free
This open access resource provides the National Cancer Institute’s PDQ summaries for integrative, complementary and alternative therapies. Although the resource targets healthcare professionals, patient versions of the summaries are also provided.
- ConsumerLab.com
Access: subscription
This site publishes independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals identify the best quality health and nutrition products.
- Fighting Cancer
By Martin L. Rossman, MD
Access: purchase
Dr. Martin L. Rossman shows cancer patients how to use imagery in specific ways that can help them in their fight against cancer. The Fighting Cancer from Within book and 5 CD set were specifically designed to help cancer patients work from within to support their own healing, and are compatible with any other form of treatment.
- Financial Resources
By BCCT
Date Published: January 2021
Access: free
A collection of resources that provide financial and/or logistical support to people with cancer.
- Get Help: Healing Circles: Share Your Experience
Publisher: BCCT
Access: free
This page provides specific sources of assistance for people with cancer: support groups, advocacy, caregiving, transportation and more.
- Global Medical Cannabis Education
Publisher: The Medical Cannabis Institute Global
Access: purchase
TMCI provides online medical education for healthcare professionals who want to learn about medical cannabis and its potential clinical application. Science-based, accredited courses help professionals deliver quality care and address patient questions. Through TMCI’s online course offerings, healthcare professionals will learn about the basics of the endocannabinoid system; the importance of patient education; specific medical cannabis treatments for pain, cancer and other diseases; and more.
- Healing Circles
Publisher: Commonweal
Access: free
Healing Circles Global has shared a new website to explore ways of deepening our capacity to heal, alleviating our suffering, and finding meaning in both challenge and joy. Find online circles to connect with others.
- HerbMed
Publisher: American Botanical Council
Access: subscription
HerbMed provides “education using science-based and traditional information to promote responsible use of herbal medicine—serving the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry and media.” This website is not specific to herbs used for cancer. The free public website includes 20 of the most popular herbs, plus an additional herb of the month. Information on other herbs is available for a fee.
- Integrative Medicine Program
Publisher: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Access: free
The Integrative Medicine Program engages patients and their families to become active participants in improving their physical, psycho-spiritual and social health. The ultimate goals are to optimize health, quality of life and clinical outcomes through personalized evidence-based clinical care, exceptional research and education.
- KNOWOncology
Publisher: Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OncANP)
Access: members only
KnowOnolcogy is a clinical tool for evidence-informed decision-making in integrative oncology. It is available only to members of Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OncANP). Allied memberships are available to licensed healthcare providers or biomedical researchers who are not licensed naturopathic physicians. Portions of this database are slated to be posted on Cancer Knowledge Network (cancerkn.com). Patients working with a naturopathic oncologist who is a member of OncANP may be able to use this tool with their oncologist to guide decisions about integrative cancer therapies.
- LDN Research Trust
Publisher: LDN Research Trust
Access: free
LDN Research Trust was founded by a group of multiple sclerosis patients for whom LDN worked very well after all other treatments had failed. The primary aim of the trust is to initiate clinical trials of low-dose naltrexone (LDN). The site provides information on how LDN works, its use in treating pain and medical conditions, and types of LDN. This site includes the LDN Radio Station with presentations by LDN prescribers, researchers and pharmacists.
- Leafly
Access: free
This consumer website, with information on both medical and recreational cannabis use, has a number of specific articles with references on cannabis and cancer. It also provides information about dispensaries in the US, strains, news (including health news), products, videos about cannabis and information about legalization of cannabis.
- Live by Living
Date Published: December 1969
Access: free
Live by Living provides transformative outdoor experiences for cancer survivors and their caregivers.
- Low Dose Naltrexone
Access: free
This web resource is kept current with recent studies about low-dose naltrexone.
- Mindful
Publisher: Foundation for a Mindful Society
Access: free
This website is dedicated to inspiring, guiding, and connecting anyone who wants to explore mindfulness—to enjoy better health, more caring relationships, and a compassionate society.
- Move Your Way Activity Planner
Publisher: US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Access: free
Use this online tool to make a plan to stay on track. Set your own weekly goals, choose the activities you want to do, and get personalized tips to help you stay motivated.
- Moving for Life: Dance Exercise for Health
Publisher: Moving for Life, Inc.
Access: free
This organization is dedicated to helping people challenged by cancer and aging through free and low-cost dance exercise classes offered at community-based sites and through online classes.
- My Cancer Circle
Publisher: CancerCare
Access: free
This is a free, private support community for caregivers of people facing cancer. It includes an online tool that helps organize the community of people who want to help caregivers.
- National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Access: free
NCCS’ mission is to advocate for quality cancer care for all people touched by cancer and promote policy change to ensure quality cancer care. NCCS has worked with legislators and policy makers to represent cancer patients and survivors in efforts to improve their quality of care and quality of life after diagnosis.
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Access: subscription
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), a not-for-profit alliance of 27 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. NCCN is dedicated to improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of cancer care so that patients can live better lives. Through the leadership and expertise of clinical professionals at NCCN Member Institutions, NCCN develops resources that present valuable information to the numerous stakeholders in the healthcare delivery system.
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network Patient and Caregiver Resources
Access: free
The NCCN Guidelines for Patients® and NCCN Quick Guide™ sheets are based on the same treatment information your doctors use and help you talk to your doctor about the best treatment options for your disease. Guidelines are provided for treatments for specific cancers, for supportive care and for screening. Some guides are available in languages other than English.
- Natural Alternative Treatments
Publisher: Lone Star Medical Group
Access: free
This site, a service provided by Lonestar Medical Group, contains detailed information on almost 200 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 300 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for over 90 drug categories. Spanish-language versions are available for some therapies.
- Natural Medicines Database
Publisher: Therapeutic Research Center
Access: freesubscription
This website provides a searchable database of natural medicines, targeting health professionals, researchers, patients and the public. It is not specific to cancer, but visitors may search for information by cancer type. Natural medicines summaries include dosing and administration information.
- NCI-Designated Cancer Centers
Publisher: National Cancer Institute
Access: free
As of 2018, 69 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers, located in 35 states and the District of Columbia, form the backbone of NCI’s programs for studying and controlling cancer. At any given time, hundreds of research studies are under way at the cancer centers; many of these studies are collaborative and may involve several cancer centers or other partners in industry and the community. Not all of these centers provide Integrative oncology services. Examples of centers that do are Memorial Sloan Kettering, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
- Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Publisher: National Cancer Institute
Access: free
This open-access site contains various resources for patients and professionals related to complementary approaches and cancer: A workbook for patients to use in exploring approaches and talking with their doctors, a guide to help patients make informed choices, FAQs and information on how to read safety warnings, selecting a complementary practitioner, paying for complementary approaches, evaluating medical resources on the Internet, and finding integrative medicine programs.
- Oriveda Medicinal Mushroom Resource Page
Publisher: Oriveda
Date Published: December 1969
Access: free
Oriveda's site includes links to articles and research on medicinal mushrooms:
- Agaricus blazei Murrill
- Chaga
- Cordyceps
- Lion's mane
- Maitake
- Reishi
- Shilajit
- Turkey tail
- PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries
Publisher: National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Access: free
These cancer information summaries from the National Cancer Institute give brief descriptions of selected integrative, alternative and complementary therapies and the evidence supporting their use.
- Project Facilitate: Assisting Healthcare Providers with Expanded Access Requests for Investigational Oncology Products
Publisher: US Food and Drug Administration
Date Published: June 3, 2019
The Oncology Center of Excellence Project Facilitate call center is a pilot program to assist oncology healthcare providers in requesting access to investigational therapies for patients with cancer.
- The Moss Reports
By Ralph Moss, PhD
Access: purchase
The Moss Reports contain comprehensive, up-to-date information on conventional, integrative, experimental, complementary, dietary and alternative cancer treatments, detailed for the 27 most common cancer diagnoses.
- The Patient Story
Date Published: December 1969
Access: free
The Patient Story offers cancer patients and caregivers a sense of what they can expect in their cancer journey, moderated by patients and caregivers who who've been through cancer treatment.
- The Radical Remission Project
Publisher: Kelly A. Turner
Access: freepurchase
This site creates a community of patients, friends and family, health professionals, and Radical Remission survivors—when someone heals against all odds. Offerings include an online course, workshops, lectures, coaching, teacher training and a docuseries.
- United Patients Group
Publisher: United Patients Group
Access: free
UPG is a resource in medical cannabis for physicians, patients and organizations, acting as a conduit between worldwide medical institutions and the medical cannabis industry. They offer CME education courses and one-on-one consulting to physicians and medical institutions. United Patients Group’s Seal of Approval is awarded to medical professionals, organizations and companies for superior medical cannabis services and reliable medical cannabis products.
- What is Cervical Cancer?
Publisher: News Medical Life Sciences
Access: free
This page from News-Medical.Net provides an overview of cervical cancer causes, screening, treatment and prevention. Readers can subscribe to a newsletter covering the latest cervical cancer news.
- Wholesome Resources
By Julie Lusk, MEd
Access: freepurchase
This website contains information about workshops, resource materials and professional training on stress management, wellness promotion, and mind-body techniques and strategies.
- Will2Love
By Dr. Leslie Schover
Access: free
This website provides resources on finding a sexuality specialist, help with fertility issues, issues related to reproductive health and cancer, sexual health products and general cancer information
Selected books
- 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 1
By Julie Lusk
Publisher: Wholesome Resources
Date Published: 2015
Access: purchase
30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 1 includes scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization and more. Scripts include Achieve deep, positive relaxation; Benefit from stress relief; Healing guided imagery; Awaken intuition; and Increase self growth and understanding.
- 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 2
By Julie Lusk
Publisher: Wholesome Resources
Date Published: 1993
Access: purchase
30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 2 includes scripts for reliable ways to relax, get stress relief and boost your energy
- After Cancer Care
By Gerald Lemole, MD; Pallav Mehta, MD; and Dwight McKee, MD
Publisher: Rodale Books
Date Published: August 25, 2015
Access: purchase
According to Drs. Lemole, Mehta, and McKee, your choices in diet, exercise, and even relationships can help determine your propensity for relapse. With more than three decades of post-cancer-care experience, the doctors create practical takeaways based on science so that readers will drastically improve their quality of life to enjoy many years of cancer-free serenity.
- Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
By Norman Cousins
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Date Published: 2005
Access: purchase
This book is described as "the first book by a patient that spoke to our current interest in taking charge of our own health," starting the revolution in patients working with their doctors and using humor to boost their bodies' capacity for healing.
- Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six
By Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Date Published: 2018
Access: purchase
Introducing the concept of the “Mix of Six,” Cohen and Jefferies make an informed case that building social and emotional support; managing stress; improving sleep, exercise, and diet; and minimizing exposure to environmental toxins work together to promote an optimal environment for health and well-being.
- Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Fourth Edition)
By Patrick Quillin, PhD, with Noreen Quillin
Publisher: Nutrition Times Press, Inc.
Date Published: 2005
Access: purchase
This book provides an approach for using an aggressive nutrition plan of food and supplements to 1) reverse or avoid the common malnutrition that kills 42 percent of cancer patients; 2) make chemo and radiation more of a selective toxicant, thus protecting patients' cells while making the cancer cells more vulnerable to medical elimination; 3) slow cancer by limiting the amount of sugar available in the blood and gut for the glucose-dependent cancer cells; 4) stimulate the immune system, which is in charge of killing unwanted cells in the body, including cancer; and 5) using foods and nutrition supplements as "biological response modifiers" to upregulate the body's built-in mechanism for eliminating cancer cells, such as apoptosis (programmed cell death). The beginning of the Executive Summary is available through the Look Inside feature.
Commentary:
Laura Pole: Although this book is dated 2005, many have found it useful, and some integrative physicians still recommend it to their patients.
- Beyond the Magic Bullet: The Anti-Cancer Cocktail
By Raymond Chang, MD
Publisher: Square One Publishers
Date Published: 2012
Conventional medicine’s core strategy has been re-examined, and a new, potentially more effective approach has emerged―one that combines the best of Eastern wisdom with Western science. This book takes a penetrating look at this bold new way of treating cancer.
- Brave New Medicine
By Dr. Cynthia Li
Publisher: Reveal Press
Date Published: 2019-09-1
Access: purchase
Brave New Medicine details the disabling autoimmune illness that forces a young doctor to question her medical training, embrace the principles of integrative and functional medicine, and unlock her body’s innate potential to heal. In this revelatory memoir, Li blends the insight of a scientist with the humility and candor of a patient, drawing upon cutting-edge science, ancient healing arts, and the power of intuition to offer a fresh, new perspective for doctors and patients alike.
- Cancer as a Turning Point
By Lawrence LeShan, PhD
Publisher: Penguin Group
Date Published: 1994
Access: purchase
In this book psychiatrist Lawrence LeShan shows how psychological and lifestyle changes, coupled with medical treatment, can mobilize a compromised immune system for healing.
- Caregiving: A Step-By-Step Resource for Caring for the Person with Cancer at Home
By Peter S. Houts, PhD, and Julia A. Bucher, RN, PhD
Publisher: American Cancer Society
Date Published: 2000
Access: purchase
Written for caregivers, this updated and revised version of Home Care Guide for Cancer explains each major kind of cancer treatment, obstacles to recovery, when it is time to call in professional help, plentiful examples of how individuals can help their loved ones, and how to adjust your plan of action as needed.
- Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer
By Michael Lerner
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1994
Access: free
This book is written for you—someone with cancer who wants to understand the many choices available to you in both conventional medicine and alternative therapies. It is also for your family members, friends, and healthcare professionals, but primarily it is for you. It is a book about how to find your way through the unfamiliar and often frightening territory that you face when you are diagnosed with cancer.
- Coping with Cancer: A Journey to a New Life
By Lee Majewski
Date Published: December 19, 2018
Access: free
Coping with Cancer: A Journey to a New Life describes how yoga therapy layers yoga wisdom, philosophies and principles with traditional conventional western medicine for an empowering, complete and holistic healing approach to traveling the entire cancer journey.
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
By Blake Gossard, editor
Publisher: Life Extensions
Date Published: 2018-12-1
Access: purchase
This 6th edition of this book summarizes the latest science and mainstream medicine on staying healthy. Disease Prevention and Treatment is packed with the latest evidence-based protocols addressing 131 different health concerns including cancer.
- Doctored Results: The Suppression of Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
By Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Publisher: Moss Reports
Access: purchase
Ralph Moss, PhD, former assistant director of Public Affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, unveils a cover-up of positive tests with America's most controversial anticancer agent, laetrile.
- Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
By Dr. Susan Love
Publisher: De Capo Press. 2015
Date Published: 2015
Access: purchase
Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book uses the warm, supportive, and candid tone that has brought confidence to millions of women to help each reader plan her own path after a breast cancer diagnosis.The sixth edition explains advances in targeted treatments, hormonal therapies, chemotherapy, and immunologic approaches as well as new forms of surgery and radiation.
- Fighting Cancer
By Martin L. Rossman, MD
Access: purchase
Dr. Martin L. Rossman shows cancer patients how to use imagery in specific ways that can help them in their fight against cancer. The Fighting Cancer from Within book and 5 CD set were specifically designed to help cancer patients work from within to support their own healing, and are compatible with any other form of treatment.
- Fighting Cancer from Within
By Martin L. Rossman, MD
Publisher: The Healing Mind
Date Published: 2003
Access: purchase
- Getting Well Again
By O. Carl Simonton, MD, James Creighton, PhD, and Stephanie Matthews Simonton
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1992
Access: purchase
In this book the Simontons profile the typical "cancer personality": how an individual’s reactions to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer—and how positive expectations, self-awareness, and self-care can contribute to survival.
- Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
By Norman Cousins
Publisher: Penguin Books USA
Date Published: 1990
Access: purchase
This book is described as "an eloquent plea for two needed emphases: more humane doctor-patient relations, and greater patient involvement in the struggle with disease.”
- Healing outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care
By Carole O'Toole and Carolyn B. Hendricks
Publisher: Lifeline Press
Date Published: 2002
Access: purchase
This book provides information on complementary therapies, including acupuncture, massage, homeopathy and meditative practices, and discusses how to integrate these therapies with conventional cancer treatments.
- Herbal Medicine, 2nd Edition: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects
By Editors: Iris F. F. Benzie and Sissi Wachtel-Galor
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Date Published: 2011
Access: free
Drawing from the work of leading international researchers in different fields, this book contains an in-depth scientific examination of effects of individual herbs, as well as their use in the treatment of important diseases such as cancer. This volume focuses on presenting current scientific evidence of biomolecular effects of selected herbs and their relation to clinical outcome and promotion of human health. This book also addresses the ethical challenges of using herbal medicine and its integration into modern, evidence-based medicine.
- Herbs Against Cancer: History and Controversy
By Ralph W. Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
Access: purchase
In this e-book, Dr. Ralph W. Moss explores the history and clinical use of herbs in cancer treatment.
- I Am with You: Love Letters to Cancer Patients
By Nancy Novack and Barbara K. Richardson (editors)
Publisher: Nancy's List Books
Date Published: 2015
Access: purchase
Described as "a powerful book for the newly-diagnosed patient, for those who are going through treatment or have entered remission, for loved ones, and for everyone else in the world," this anthology of 42 stories offers hope and healing to sustain cancer patients through those first frightening nights after they hear their diagnosis and every night thereafter.
- Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
By Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Date Published: 2002
Access: purchase
This book describes how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain.
- Integrative Oncology, 2nd Edition
By Donald I. Abrams, MD, and Andrew T. Weil, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2014
Access: purchase
This book provides complementary interventions to conventional cancer care, Including the hot topics of cannabinoids, antioxidents, energy medicine. and nutrition. New chapters have been added to this edition.
- Life over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
By Keith I. Block, MD
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Date Published: 2009
Access: purchase
Dr. Keith Block describes the Block program for fighting cancer to people who are at different places along the cancer continuum. Dr. Block’s evidence-based program is explained in easy-to-understand language that patients can implement both by themselves as well as with the assistance of their healthcare provider. Dr. Block includes in-depth descriptions of lifestyle practices as well as complementary therapies that are designed to enhance conventional cancer treatment, minimize side effects, and possibly prevent recurrence.
- Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
By Joan Borysenko, PhD
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2007
Access: purchase
This book provides time-tested tips on how to take control of physical and emotional well-being, drawing from success with thousands of patients with conditions ranging from allergies to cancer. Tips provide guidance on how to elicit the mind's powerful relaxation response to boost the immune system, cope with chronic pain, and alleviate symptoms of a host of stress-related illnesses.
- N of 1
By Glenn Sabin with Dawn Lemanne, MD, MPH
Publisher: FON Therapeutics, Inc.
Date Published: 2016
Access: purchase
In N of 1, author Glenn Sabin takes readers along his journey with 'incurable' cancer, where he discovers 1) No two cancers are exactly alike. Our bodies, minds and diseases are unique, and need to be treated as such. 2) Knowledge and empowerment are your best allies against a life-limiting diagnosis. 3) Lifestyle changes are a powerful way to help prevent, manage and reduce the recurrence of disease--and to improve your quality of life. 4) A strong support system and a clear mind may significantly improve your health.
- Naturopathic Oncology, 3rd Edition
By Neil McKinney, BSc, ND
Publisher: Liaison Press
Date Published: 2016
Access: purchase
Informed by 30 years of practice and teaching naturopathic and traditional Chinese medicine, this guide to clinical success with cancer adds new therapies, new chapters, refinements of protocols, expanded references.
- Questioning Chemotherapy
By Ralph W. Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
Access: purchase
In this e-book, Dr. Ralph W. Moss explores the effective and harmful uses of chemotherapy. Side effects are also covered.
- Radical Hope: Ten Healing Factors from Exceptional Survivors of Cancer and Other Diseases
By Kelly A. Turner
Publisher: Hay House Inc.
Date Published: 2020
In this book, Kelly Turner compiles real-life stories from survivors of cancer and other diseases who have used the 10 key Radical Remission healing factors. With authenticity and a sense of hope, these stories shine the spotlight on the pure strength of the human spirit and offer steadfast support and guidance for making the unique and individual decisions that lead to a powerful journey of healing.
- Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds
By Kelly A. Turner
Date Published: 2014
Access: purchase
Dr. Turner has studied episodes of radical (or unexpected) remission—when people recover against all odds without the help of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed. Her evidence presents nine common themes that she believes may help even terminal patients turn their lives around.
- Rituals of Healing
By Jeanne Achterberg and Barbara Dossey
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1994
Access: purchase
This book is described as "a practical guide to using the powers of the mind and the imagination to form rituals that can help the body restore and maintain health."
- Textbook of Naturopathic Oncology
By Gurdev Parmar and Tina Kaczor
Publisher: Medicatrix Holdings, Ltd.
Date Published: 2020
Access: purchase
Both Dr. Gurdev Parmar and Dr. Tina Kaczor are well-respected founders of the field of naturopathic oncology and established naturopathic oncology practitioners. This textbook will provide every practitioner of integrative oncology with a guide to safe and effective practice.
- The Breast Cancer Companion: A Complementary Care Manual: Third Edition
By Barbara MacDonald, ND, LAc
Date Published: October 26, 2016
Access: purchase
The Breast Cancer Companion: A Complementary Care Manual: Third Edition provides information on how to safely combine conventional and natural treatments that support women during surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone-blocking medications, metastatic treatment including details on drug-nutrient and drug-botanical interactions and strategies for prevention of recurrence.
- The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment
By Ralph W. Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
Access: purchase
In this e-book, Dr. Ralph Moss exposes the political and economic forces inside the cancer establishment.
- The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, Second Edition
By Rebecca Katz, MS, with Mat Edelson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date Published: 2017
Access: purchase
Featuring science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects, this updated award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal
- The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition
By Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, and Karolyn Gazella
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Date Published: 2010
Access: purchase
Naturopathic oncologist Lise Alschuler and health writer Karolyn Gazella have written The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing for those who have been diagnosed with cancer and their loved ones. “Compassionate while reflecting the most recent science, this book offers a thorough examination of integrative cancer prevention and treatment in an accessible and practical manner. Readers will develop a better understanding of what cancer is, what causes it, how to best prevent it, and how to include complementary therapies into their treatment.” Naturopathic therapies are provided for a number of specific cancers.
- The Definitive Guide to Thriving after Cancer
By Lise N. Alschuler and Karolyn A. Gazella
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date Published: 2013
Access: purchase
The Definitive Guide to Thriving after Cancer: A Five-Step Integrative Plan to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence and Build Lifelong Health (formerly titled Five to Thrive) outlines a five-step plan integrating both conventional and alternative therapies for cancer survivors.
- The Ecology of Breast Cancer: The Promise of Prevention and the Hope for Healing
By Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
Publisher: Science and Environmental Health Network and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Date Published: 2013
In addition to risk factors associated with hormone levels and reproductive development and history, many other, multi-level environmental variables also interact with human breast biology. In considering breast cancer as an ecological disorder, this book reviews and summarizes a large scientific literature and draws practical conclusions to stimulate more widespread efforts to prevent this disease and improve outcomes after diagnosis and treatment.
- The Healing Grace of Cancer
By Makala Kozo Hattori
Date Published: 2017
Access: freepurchase
Diagnosed with colorectal cancer without having any of the risk factors associated with the disease, Makala Kozo Hattori turned to the indigenous wisdom of Hawaii to heal not only his body, but also his relationships with his family, himself, difficult others, and his broken life.
- The Healing Journey
By O. Carl Simonton, MD, and Reid Henson with Brenda Hampton
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
Date Published: 2002
Access: purchase
Dr. Simonton walks readers through an abbreviated five-day Simonton Patient Program, including a patient’s private journey with cancer, using tools at the heart of the Simonton Program to get and stay well.
- The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Publisher: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Date Published: 2017
Access: free
This book provides a comprehensive review of scientific evidence related to the health effects and potential therapeutic benefits of cannabis. This report provides a research agenda—outlining gaps in current knowledge and opportunities for providing additional insight into these issues—that summarizes and prioritizes pressing research needs.
- The Journey through Cancer: An Oncologist's Seven-Level Program for Healing and Transforming the Whole Person
By Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP
Publisher: Harmony
Date Published: May 23, 2006
Access: purchase
Board-certified oncologist Jeremy Geffen, MD, has spent more than fifteen years providing treatment, guidance, and care for thousands of cancer patients and their families. In this groundbreaking work, he offers real and inspiring solutions to the unique challenges encountered on the cancer journey, while honoring and caring for the whole person—and his or her entire family—at every step along the way.
- The LDN Book
By Linda Elsegood
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pubishing
Date Published: February 15, 2016
Access: purchase
This book explains the drug’s origins, its primary mechanism, and research from practicing physicians and pharmacists.
- The Meals to Heal Cookbook
By Jessica Iannotta and Susan Bratton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2017
Access: purchase
This cookbook shares healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes that not only taste delicious but also mitigate the many side effects of cancer treatment.
- The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It
By Clifton Leaf
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: August 2014
Access: purchase
Over the past half century, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer continues to kill with abandon. A decade ago, Clifton Leaf, a celebrated journalist and a cancer survivor himself, began to investigate why we had made such limited progress fighting this terrifying disease. The result is a narrative that reveals why the public’s immense investment in research has been badly misspent, why scientists seldom collaborate and share their data, why new drugs are so expensive yet routinely fail, and why our best hope for progress—brilliant young scientists—are now abandoning the search for a cure.
Journals and magazines
- BCCT News
Publisher: Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies
Access: free
An email campaign archive of BCCT's news updates
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Access: free
This international, peer-reviewed, open access journal seeks to understand the sources and to encourage rigorous research in the new, yet ancient, world of complementary and alternative medicine. Authors typically pay an article process charge when an article is accepted for publication.
- Exercise is medicine in oncology: engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer
By Kathryn H. Schmitz PhD, MPH Anna M. Campbell PhD and others
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
Date Published: October 16, 2019
Access: free
A call to action "to create the infrastructure and cultural adaptations needed so that all people living with and beyond cancer can be as active as is possible for them."
- Integrative Cancer Therapies Journal
Publisher: SAGE Journals
Access: subscription
Integrative Cancer Therapies (ICT) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal focused on a comprehensive model of integrative cancer treatment that embraces both conventional health care and integrative therapies such as diet, lifestyle, exercise, stress care and nutritional supplementation. Various alternative therapies and innovative research areas such as circadian biology of cancer and cancer treatment, broad-spectrum molecular cancer therapies, phytochemical pharmacology and other cutting-edge topics in natural therapeutics development are also explored in this journal. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- Natural Medicine Journal
Publisher: American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
Natural Medicine Journal is a cutting-edge electronic journal and website for integrative healthcare practitioners, students, faculty and anyone else interested in the field of natural medicine. Readers of the journal and visitors to the site will find scientifically valid, clinically relevant information within the peer-reviewed monthly journal and online resources. A free monthly e-journal is available.
- September 2018 Issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Date Published: September 2018
Access: free
This issue includes 28 free and open-access articles by leading researchers and providers relating to lung cancer, prostate cancer, gynecological cancers, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, childhood cancers, several treatment approaches and more.
- Wildfire
By April Stearns
Access: subscription
Wildfire is an online magazine for young women with breast cancer. WILDFIRE is the creator/editor's response to fill the need for real discussion on real topics. Each issue contains written and visual work from young women survivors. Each issue is on a theme. Paid subscription is required to access articles.
Articles and reports
- 3 Ways to Use Supplements for Healing
By Dr. Wayne Jonas
Date Published: March 23, 2020
Access: free
This post discusses how integrative medicine offers three clinical strategies for addressing supplements in practice in an evidence-based manner:
- Recommending supplements for depletion
- Monitoring patients who already take supplements
- Prescribing supplements as an alternative treatment
Only after your provider knows all the facts can they begin to properly help you with the appropriate supplement recommendation.
- A Broad-Spectrum Integrative Design for Cancer Prevention and Therapy
By Keith Block and others
Publisher: Seminars in Cancer Biology
Date Published: December 2015
Access: free
An international task force of 180 scientists was assembled to explore the concept of a low-toxicity “broad-spectrum” therapeutic approach that could simultaneously target many key pathways and mechanisms. This report summarizes their findings.
- A Systematic Review of Psychosocial Interventions to Cancer Caregivers
By Fang Fu, Huaijuan Zhao, Feng Tong, and Iris Chi
Publisher: Frontiers in Psychology
Date Published: May 23, 2017
Access: free
This systematic review found that paired-intervention targeting self-care and interpersonal connections of caregivers and symptom management of patients is effective in improving quality of life and alleviating depression of cancer caregivers while music therapy is helpful for reducing anxiety of cancer caregivers.
- Advancing the Global Impact of Integrative Oncology
By Jun J. Mao
Publisher: Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs
Date Published: November 13, 2017
Access: free
This article introduces the November 2017 issue of the NCI Monographs, which was devoted to the global impact of integrative oncology.
- Application of chronotherapy to the treatment of cancer: can changing the timing of drug administration influence efficacy and toxicity?
By Danial E. Baker
Publisher: Advances in Pharmacy
Date Published: July 1, 2004
The author discusses the application of chronotherapy to the treatment of several types of cancer. The goal is to match the administration of a therapy to the most appropriate time of day in an attempt to maximize its efficacy and minimize the toxicity of the administered drug.
- Cancer Adjuvant Therapy: Repurposing Common Drugs as Adjuvant Cancer Therapies
Publisher: LifeExtension Nutritional Support
Access: free
This page reports on how a few widely used medications can be used as adjuvant therapy to lower rates of cancer and lead to better cancer outcomes. Medications include statins, cimetidine (Tagamet), aspirin and metformin.
- Cancer Pain Control: Support for People with Cancer
Publisher: National Cancer Institute
Date Published: January 2019
Access: free
This booklet from the National Cancer Institute includes tips about managing your pain with medicine and other treatments. It is available in several downloadable formats for reading or printing.
- Cannabis and Cancer
By Donald I. Abrams, MD
Publisher: San Francisco Medicine
Date Published: June 2016
Access: free
Donald Abrams discusses historical and current uses of cannabis in cancer therapies, as well as research and observational findings.
- Clinical Pearls
By Dwight McKee, MD, editor
Publisher: Cancer Strategies Journal
Date Published: 2013
Access: free
"Clinical Pearls" first appeared in Cancer Strategies Journal in issues in 2013 and 2014. Edited by integrative oncologist Dwight McKee, MD, these insights are based on research and clinical practice of Donnie Yance and his colleagues at the Mederi Foundation in Oregon. These "clinical pearls" exemplify the thinking that Dr. McKee has been developing throughout his career. We are grateful to Dr. McKee and to Eve Katz, editor of Cancer Strategies Journal, for permission to make these clinical insights available to BCCT.
- Diet and Lifestyle Considerations for Breast Cancer
Publisher: LifeExtension Nutritional Support
This site provides diet and lifestyle guidance to prevent and fight breast cancer, including a plant-based diet, healthier cooking methods, healthy beverages, body weight, managing stress and eating soy foods.
- Exercise is medicine in oncology: engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer
By Kathryn H. Schmitz PhD, MPH Anna M. Campbell PhD and others
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
Date Published: October 16, 2019
Access: free
A call to action "to create the infrastructure and cultural adaptations needed so that all people living with and beyond cancer can be as active as is possible for them."
- Finances
Publisher: Triagecancer.org
Access: free
Triage Cancer provides resource topics that have an impact on finances, research on the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis, financial assistance options, and other related information.
- Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective
Publisher: World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research
Date Published: 2007
Access: free
This review uses a systematic approach to examine all the relevant evidence using predetermined criteria and assembled an international group of experts who, having brought their own knowledge to bear and having debated their disagreements, arrived at judgments as to what this evidence means.
- Frontiers in Mindfulness and other Complementary & Integrative Approaches in Behavioral Medicine
Publisher: Translational Behavioral Medicine
Date Published: 2019
Access: free
This collection of articles showcases developments in mindfulness, meditation and yoga in behavioral medicine. These articles span diverse behavioral medicine applications including chronic pain, breast cancer, and other conditions.
- Integrating Cannabis into Clinical Cancer Care
By Donald I. Abrams, MD
Publisher: Current Oncology
Date Published: March 2016
Access: free
Donald Abrams summarizes the uses of cannabis for symptom management and anticancer therapy in clinical practice.
- Integrative Interventions for Breast Cancer
Publisher: LifeExtension Nutritional Support
Access: free
Nutritional support company, Life Extensions, integrative interventions like green tea, flax seed, mushrooms, and curcumin to aid in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.
- Integrative Treatment for Colorectal Cancer
By Block KI, Block PB, Gyllenhaal C
Publisher: Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Date Published: September 2018
Access: free
This article describes integrative therapies organized in three spheres of intervention: lifestyle, biology, and conventional treatment. Individualization of treatment is emphasized.
- Moss Report Podcast
By Ralph Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
The Moss Report Podcast features in-depth conversations about alternative, complementary, and innovative cancer treatments. Podcast host Ralph W. Moss, PhD, speaks with doctors, researchers, patients and health professionals from around the world.
- Moving Research Into Practice: Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Weight Management for Cancer Patients and Survivors
By Karen Basen-Engquist and others
Publisher: National Academy of Medicine
Date Published: October 29, 2018
Access: free
This report proposes six action steps to increase the availability and uptake of weight management, physical activity, and nutrition interventions for cancer patients and survivors.
- Naturopathic and Integrative Cancer Care
By Dr. Deirdre Orceyre
Publisher: GW Center for Integrative Medicine
Date Published: September 2019
Access: free
These slides cover the philosophy, definitions, treatments and resources of naturopathic and integrative oncology. From a presentation at Smith Center for the Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC on June 26, 2019, by naturopathic physician and acupuncturist Deirdre Orceyre, ND, MSOM, LAc. Shared with Dr. Orceyre's permission.
- Patient Education Brochures
Publisher: BCCT, KNOW Oncology and Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre
Date Published: 2019
Access: free
These brief patient education brochures have been created by a collaboration among BCCT, Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Knowledge in Naturopathic Oncology Website (KNOW Oncology) and the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre. Topics:
- Intravenous Vitamin C (IVC) in Cancer Care: Integrative Oncology Approaches
- Protecting Your Heart during Anthracycline / Adriamycin / Doxorubicin Chemotherapy: An Integrative Oncology Approach
- Wellness during Tamoxifen Treatment: Integrative Oncology Approaches
- Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services
Date Published: 2018
Access: free
This second edition from the US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion provides evidence-based guidance to help Americans maintain or improve their health through physical activity.
- Prehabilitation for People with Cancer
Publisher: UK Royal College of Anaesthetists, Macmillan Cancer Support, and the National Institute for Health Research Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration
Date Published: 2019
Access: free
This 86-page report includes guidelines for cancer prehabilitation programs, discussing physical activity and exercise, nutrition, and psychological support for cancer patients who are facing treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
- Provider Pocket Guide to Supplements
By Dr. Wayne Jonas
Access: free
Talking with patients about supplements is a key part of integrative health and whole-person care. This pocket guide is a resource for the HOPE Note, which includes questions on supplements and diet.
- Soy and Breast Cancer
By The Tracey Birnhak Nutritional Counseling Services
Publisher: Oncolink
Date Published: June 21, 2017
Access: free
This post includes information on research regarding consumption of soy foods and supplements by breast cancer survivors, including recommended serving sizes.
- The Effects of Chemotherapy on Your Body
By Ann Pietrangelo and Kristeen Cherney
Publisher: Healthline
Date Published: May 31, 2017
Access: free
This brief article summarizes the side effects of chemotherapy for patients.
- The Moss Reports
By Ralph Moss, PhD
Access: purchase
The Moss Reports contain comprehensive, up-to-date information on conventional, integrative, experimental, complementary, dietary and alternative cancer treatments, detailed for the 27 most common cancer diagnoses.
- The Seven Levels of Healing®: Celebrating Life and Spirit on the Journey through Cancer
By Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP
Publisher: Geffen Visions International
Date Published: June 26, 2010
Access: free
Dr. Geffen describes the seven fundamental areas of inquiry and exploration universally encountered
on the journey through cancer and other serious challenges—The Seven Levels of Healing®. - The Ultimate Guide to Cancer: DIY Research
By Ralph Moss, PhD
Date Published: 2018
Access: free
This guide shows you how to use four of the main tools that doctors use to decide on the best cancer treatments. It will help you learn why some cancer treatments that look good in clinical trials may not work for “real world” patients like yourself. It will help you answer two questions that the doctor may be hesitant to answer in the detail you need to decide about treatment:
- What are my chances of actually living longer if I take your treatment?
- What are the likely side effects, and how long will they last?
- Using Medical Cannabis in an Oncology Practice
By Donald I. Abrams, MD
Publisher: Oncology (Williston Park)
Date Published: May 15, 2016
Access: free
In this brief article, Donald Abrams addresses several questions for fellow oncologists: How has medical cannabis been utilized in clinical practice? Does mode of administration (inhalation vs oral consumption) matter? What are the obstacles to obtaining medical cannabis? How can oncologists educate themselves about medical cannabis?
- What are environmental risk factors, and how can I avoid them?
Publisher: Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Date Published: February 22, 2018
Access: free
Environmental risk factors account for at least two-thirds of all cancer cases in the United States, so knowing more about what to look out for, and what to avoid, may go a long way in protecting your health. Experts say you can lower your cancer risk simply by making strategic lifestyle changes or taking conscious measures to reduce your exposure. This article summarizes known environmental risk factors.
- Your Healing Journey: A Patient’s Guide to Integrative Breast Cancer Care
By Wayne Jonas, MD
Date Published: October 2018
Access: free
Wayne Jonas, MD, created this guide to describe therapies that relieve breast cancer symptoms and reduce treatment side effects with evidence-informed self-care, complementary and lifestyle approaches used with conventional cancer treatments.
Selected videos or films or podcasts or CDs
- Before and After Surgery
By Mala Cunningham, PhD
Publisher: Shakticom
Access: purchase
The techniques on this CD of deep relaxation, guided imagery and positive thinking have been carefully selected to assist you before, during and after your surgery. Research studies show that practicing these type of techniques promotes a faster recovery, fewer complications, less pain, and reduced anxiety.
- Cell Nutritionals: Pomi-T Study
Publisher: Cell Nutritionals
Date Published: October 18, 2014
Access: free
This brief video describes for non-scientists the mechanisms and findings regarding the effects of concentrates of four superfoods (green tea, turmeric, pomegranate and broccoli) on prostate cancer proliferation.
- Cynthia Li: Strengthening Personal Immunity and Resilience
Access: free
In this webinar, Michael Lerner interviews Cynthia Li, MD, a physician and author. Her personal healing journey through a disabling autoimmune condition took her from public health in underserved populations to integrative and functional medicine. She discusses her free ebook, How to Shield Yourself against COVID-19. She also demonstrates qigong exercises that can boost your immune system. From The Learning Community series at The New School at Commonweal.
- Dealing with the Trauma of Cancer: Dr. Moss interviews Dr. James S. Gordon
By Dr. Ralph Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
Date Published: September 19, 2019
Access: free
Dr. Moss interviews Dr. James S. Gordon on his new book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing after Trauma.
- Dwight McKee Podcast
Publisher: Dr. Michael Ruscio
Date Published: 2018-8-29
Access: free
In this podcast hosted by Dr. Michael Ruscio interviews expert oncologist Dwight McKee. Topics covered include integrative cancer care, immunotherapy, natural therapies, curative intent treatment, diet, and beta-blockers.
- Exercise and Recovery
By Donna Wilson
Publisher: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Date Published: October 2014
Access: free
Fitness expert Donna Wilson emphasizes the importance of exercise in recovering from cancer treatment.
- Fighting Cancer from Within
By Martin L. Rossman, MD
Publisher: The Healing Mind
Date Published: 2003
Access: purchase
- Finances
Publisher: Triagecancer.org
Access: free
Triage Cancer provides resource topics that have an impact on finances, research on the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis, financial assistance options, and other related information.
- Guided Meditation for Cancer Patients and Caregivers HD
By David Zuniga, PhD
Publisher: Gil Garcia
Date Published: 2016
Access: free
The video is a guided visualization meditation for patients who have cancer and their caregivers.
- Guided Meditations to Promote Successful Surgery
By Belleruth Naparstek
Publisher: HealthJourneys
This award-winning, highly researched meditation for surgery preparation and recovery, was found in double blind, placebo-controlled research to dramatically lower pre-op anxiety and pain, speed up healing, cut length of hospital stay, lower use of medication and reduce blood loss.
- How Can Health Care Serve Spiritual and Social Needs?
Publisher: Wayne Jonas
Date Published: November 2019
In this exclusive interview with Rev. Maeba Jonas, Dr. Wayne Jonas discusses the opioid crisis, introducing faith into healthcare, and how many of your health-related issues are actually determined by social and spiritual needs.
- Immunotherapy: How the Immune System Fights Cancer
Publisher: National Cancer Institute
Date Published: 2018
Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to fight cancer. This animation explains three types of immunotherapy used to treat cancer: nonspecific immune stimulation, T-cell transfer therapy, and immune checkpoint inhibitors.
- Immunotherapy: The Battle Within
Publisher: Moss Reports
Date Published: August 26, 2020
Access: free
Immunotherapy: The Battle Within explains how and why cancer immunotherapy was practically erased from history and is now at the very forefront of cancer treatment.
- Integrative Cancer Care
By Donald Abrams, MD
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Access: free
This four-video series records a day-long training with Donald Abrams, MD, one of the nation’s foremost integrative cancer care authorities. The training is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. This training is part of Healing Circles, a new Commonweal curriculum for health professionals and others dedicated to enhancing supportive programs for people with cancer. Each of Dr. Abrams' presentations is followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner.
- Integrative Oncology Talk
Access: free
Dr. Santosh Rao, a medical oncologist and integrative oncologist, hosts this podcast discussing the latest science and opinions from leading voices in integrative oncology. This podcast is supported by the Society for Integrative Oncology, an international multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to advance the science and education of integrative oncology worldwide.
- Jeremy Geffen, MD—The Seven Levels of Healing
By Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP
Date Published: June 30, 2016
Access: free
This video is a recording of Dr. Geffen's presentation "Seven Levels of Healing" at the Cancer as a Turning Point Conference in Seattle, Washington, in July 2006.
- Journey through Cancer: Emotional Healing—Dr. Jeremy Geffen
By Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP
Date Published: June 27, 2008
Access: free
In this excerpt from his best selling DVD, The Seven Levels of Healing, Dr. Geffen discusses how rollercoaster emotions affect a patient's journey through cancer and what can happen when we find the courage to embrace these emotions and bring them into the light of awareness.
- Managing Stress during Difficult Times
By Lise Alschuler and Karolyn Gazella
Publisher: Five To Thrive Live
Date Published: June 10, 2020
Access: free
In this podcast, BCCT's own Laura Pole provides practical and effective stress management advice.
- My Friend Has Cancer?!
By Jackie Ogg, Herman Barangan and Andrea Betts
Date Published: October 2019
Access: free
This six-part series explores how young adults can better support their friends who are going through cancer.
- Preparing for Surgery
By Martin L. Rossman
Publisher: The Healing Mind
Date Published: 2004
Access: purchase
Recent medical research indicates that guided imagery is an effective way to maximize the body’s healing resources and take the worry out of surgery. Martin L. Rossman, MD, presents Preparing for Surgery, a series of simple imagery techniques proven to benefit patients with quicker recoveries, fewer complications, less pain, and less bleeding after an operation. Includes three exercises to support a successful surgery and more rapid recovery.
- Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Cancer and Grief
By Erlene Chiang
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal
Date Published: July 26, 2017
Access: free
The New School host Michael Lerner conversed with master traditional Chinese medicine practitioner Erlene Chiang. The conversation explored Erlene’s work treating cancer and working with grief as well as a qigong presentation by Master Hui Chiang.
- Qigong for Cancer Survivors
By Yang Yang, PhD
Publisher: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Date Published: December 2013
Access: free
Integrative medicine specialist Yang Yang describes the benefits of qigong for cancer survivors, demonstrating exercises and meditation.
- Surviving Terminal Cancer
By Dominic Hill
Publisher: Dominic Hill and David Minchin
Date Published: 2013
Access: free
This film follows three long-term survivors of the most lethal cancer known to medicine, a primary brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme. Each rejected their conventional oncologists' prognosis that survival beyond a few months was highly unlikely, and each researched options and created a "cocktail" of pharmaceutical and complementary therapies.
- The Benefits of Medical Massage
By Michele Schuman
Publisher: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Date Published: October 2014
Access: free
Massage therapist Michele Schuman discusses the use of massage to relieve pain and other symptoms.
- The C-Word
Publisher: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary
Date Published: 2017
Access: purchase
Neuroscientist David Servan-Schreiber discovered his own brain tumor during MRI research. He set out to gather as ‘much information as I could to see what I could do to help my body fight and resist cancer.’
- The Center For Better Bones Conversation
Publisher: Moss Reports
Date Published: October 31, 2019
Access: free
This video interview by Dr. Ralph Moss of Dr. Susan Brown of the Center for Better Bones discusses issues of bone health and risk of fractures.
Patient tools
- Anticancer Lifestyle Program
Publisher: Anticancer Lifestyle Foundation
Access: purchase
This program offers a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program course for cancer survivors and those who seek to reduce their risk of cancer and other chronic illnesses. Topics include diet, fitness, mindset, change and environment.
- Breast Cancer Conditional Outcome Calculator
By James Michaelson, PhD
Publisher: CancerMath.net
Access: free
In this patient tool, factors such as age, time since diagnosis, evidence of recurrence and cancer grade are used to provide a personalized estimate of mortality and life expectancy.
- BRECONDA: Breast Reconstruction Decision Aid
Publisher: Macquarie University and Western Sydney Local Health District
Access: free
BRECONDA is an online tool that aims to help women make decisions about breast reconstruction.
- Cancer Health Check
Publisher: American Institute for Cancer Research
Access: free
AICR’s Cancer Health Check lets you learn more about your lifestyle choices and how you can stack the odds in your favor. By asking 11 questions including information about what you eat and how active you are, AICR gives advice based on the latest scientific research.
- Cancer-Fighting Kitchen Course for Commonweal
By Rebecca Katz
Publisher: Commonweal
Access: free
CFK is a comprehensive course including detailed information and delicious recipes, along with culinary skills and techniques that will support a nourishing experience during treatment and recovery. Receive access to this course free of charge by joining BCCT's community.
- Clean Soups Course
By Rebecca Katz
Is your objective to lose weight or boost your immune system? Simply add soup! During the COVID pandemic, BCCT advisor Rebecca Katz is making her Clean Soups course available at no cost.
- Coping with Stress: The Distress Thermometer
Publisher: Hillingdon Oncology & Palliative Care Team
Access: free
The Distress Thermometer is a tool for assessing and communicating a patient's or caregiver's level of distress with their healthcare teams.
- Get Help: Healing Circles: Share Your Experience
Publisher: BCCT
Access: free
This page provides specific sources of assistance for people with cancer: support groups, advocacy, caregiving, transportation and more.
- Helpsy Health
Publisher: Helpsy Inc.
Date Published: December 1969
Helpsy empowers members to take control of their health through a real-time virtual nurse support service. This service is available via mobile devices, a Helpsy website and automated phone calls.
- Move Your Way Activity Planner
Publisher: US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Access: free
Use this online tool to make a plan to stay on track. Set your own weekly goals, choose the activities you want to do, and get personalized tips to help you stay motivated.
- Navigating BCCT by Stages on the Cancer Path
By BCCT
Date Published: October 2018
Access: free
This outline provides a framework for which sections and pages within the BCCT website align with various cancer stages.
- NCCN Distress Thermometer and Problem List for Patients
- New American Plate Challenge
Publisher: American Institute for Cancer Research
Date Published: December 1969
Access: free
The New American Plate Challenge from the American Institute for Cancer Research is a weekly way to nudge yourself toward a healthier diet and level of physical activity. Over 12 weeks, you can use each week’s tips, videos and quizzes to eat well and move more.
- OncoLife™ Survivorship Care Plan
Publisher: OncoLink
Access: free
This online tool provides "survivorship care plan" that is individualized based on the answers you provide in a brief questionnaire. The care plan is meant for you to review and discuss with your healthcare team (both oncology and primary care). It also creates a document that details the cancer treatments you received, including any surgery, chemotherapy (or other medical therapy) and radiation therapy. The summary should list the diagnosis, stage (using TNM system when possible) and any relevant information from your pathology report. This document will be valuable to inform your healthcare team throughout your life. A healthcare professional version is also available.
- Patient Education Brochures
Publisher: BCCT, KNOW Oncology and Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre
Date Published: 2019
Access: free
These brief patient education brochures have been created by a collaboration among BCCT, Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Knowledge in Naturopathic Oncology Website (KNOW Oncology) and the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre. Topics:
- Intravenous Vitamin C (IVC) in Cancer Care: Integrative Oncology Approaches
- Protecting Your Heart during Anthracycline / Adriamycin / Doxorubicin Chemotherapy: An Integrative Oncology Approach
- Wellness during Tamoxifen Treatment: Integrative Oncology Approaches
- Predict Breast Cancer
Publisher: Public Health England
Access: free
This tool allows patients to assess treatment options and expected results according to personalized information regarding cancer and patient characteristics.
- Predict Prostate
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Date Published: 2019
Access: free
This tool uses an individualized prognostic model for men newly diagnosed with non-metastatic prostate cancer to compare the outcomes from conservative management (or monitoring) with radical treatment (surgery or radiotherapy). This tool is endorsed by the UK National Health Service (NHS) and Public Health England.
- Talking about Complementary and Alternative Medicine with Health Care Providers: A Workbook and Tips
Publisher: Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Date Published: April 12, 2013
Access: free
This workbook from the NIH’s Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) helps patients talk with health care providers about their use of complementary and alternative medicine during and after cancer care.
- The Radical Remission Project
Publisher: Kelly A. Turner
Access: freepurchase
This site creates a community of patients, friends and family, health professionals, and Radical Remission survivors—when someone heals against all odds. Offerings include an online course, workshops, lectures, coaching, teacher training and a docuseries.
- Triage Cancer
Date Published: December 1969
Access: free
Triage Cancer provides education on the topics that can have an impact on finances for individuals coping with cancer. They provide Quick Guides & resources to help you navigate finances after cancer, manage the costs of treatment, and reduce financial toxicity.
Directories of providers
- Locate Tai Chi and/or Qigong Classes
Publisher: American Tai Chi and Qigong Association
Access: free
This website allows visitors to search for qigong or tai chi instructors by city and state or by area code within the US.
Trainings
- Anticancer Lifestyle Program
Publisher: Anticancer Lifestyle Foundation
Access: purchase
This program offers a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program course for cancer survivors and those who seek to reduce their risk of cancer and other chronic illnesses. Topics include diet, fitness, mindset, change and environment.
- Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine Online Courses
Publisher: University of Arizona
Access: purchase
This site provides training opportunities for physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals in an array of integrative medicine topics, including oncology and cancer-related symptoms.
- Breast Cancer: An Integrative Approach (2019-2021)
Publisher: Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Date Published: 2019
Access: purchase
This online course gives providers tools they can incorporate into conventional cancer treatment in order to improve their patients’ quality of life and cancer-specific outcomes.
- Cancer-Fighting Kitchen Course for Commonweal
By Rebecca Katz
Publisher: Commonweal
Access: free
CFK is a comprehensive course including detailed information and delicious recipes, along with culinary skills and techniques that will support a nourishing experience during treatment and recovery. Receive access to this course free of charge by joining BCCT's community.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 1, An Introduction to Integrative Cancer Care
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 1. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 2, Integrative Cancer Care: The Role of Nutrition
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 2. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 3, Integrative Cancer Care: Rational Use of Natural Supplements
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. This video presents Integrative Cancer Care: Rational Use of Natural Supplements. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 3. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Donald Abrams: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 4, Cannabis in Integrative Cancer Care
Publisher: The New School at Commonweal and Healing Circles
Date Published: October 2, 2014
Access: free
This four-part training series with Donald I Abrams, MD, is designed for health professionals and for cancer advocates and navigators dedicated to helping others with informed choice in cancer. Dr. Abrams gives four presentations, each followed by a conversation with Commonweal’s Michael Lerner. See an outline of topics with timestamps: A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates, Part 4. Dr. Abrams is chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; an integrative oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Foundations of Integrative Oncology
Publisher: American Institute of Integrative Oncology Research & Education
Access: purchase
Dr. Chilkov shows health professionals how to combine evidence-based science and functional medicine with research-supported natural therapies and modern Chinese cancer care treatments.
- Global Medical Cannabis Education
Publisher: The Medical Cannabis Institute Global
Access: purchase
TMCI provides online medical education for healthcare professionals who want to learn about medical cannabis and its potential clinical application. Science-based, accredited courses help professionals deliver quality care and address patient questions. Through TMCI’s online course offerings, healthcare professionals will learn about the basics of the endocannabinoid system; the importance of patient education; specific medical cannabis treatments for pain, cancer and other diseases; and more.
- Integrative Cancer Therapy Fellowship Modules
Publisher: American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and Metabolic Medical Institute
Access: purchase
This fellowship is designed to teach healthcare practitioners methods needed to improve the quality of life for their patients. The innovative curriculum instructs participants on cancer prevention methods, the ways in which cancer functions and manifests, in-depth patient case studies, and a variety of integrative cancer treatment protocols that can be integrated into practice.
- Integrative Health and Lifestyle Program
Publisher: The University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Access: purchase
This training for health professionals is billed as "a compassion-centered, interprofessional, mostly-online education program. It builds a strong foundation in integrative health, emphasizing lifestyle changes and highlighting the Seven Core Areas of health."
- Integrative Medicine Education & Training Programs
Publisher: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Access: purchase
Learning opportunities in integrative medicine are provided by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in acupuncture, herbs and dietary supplements, integrative oncology, music therapy and yoga.
- Integrative Pain Management Series
Publisher: University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Date Published: April 2020
Access: purchase
This course series offers an in-depth look at the current state of integrative pain management. Participants will gain an understanding of the pathophysiology of acute pain vs chronic pain, learning to assess the evidence for the safety and benefit of a wide variety of integrative modalities including nutritional approaches, mind-body therapies, manual therapy techniques, acupuncture, and many more.
- Introduction to Integrative Oncology (2019-2021)
Publisher: University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Date Published: 2019
Access: purchase
This educational activity is designed to provide practitioners with an overview of integrative modalities and treatments that are beneficial for cancer care for patients in active treatment and survivorship, as well as prevention strategies.
- The Role of Integrative Medicine in Cancer
Publisher: National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Access: free
This free training course for health professionals has these learning objectives:
- Discuss the risks, benefits, and goals of non-conventional therapies with patients and survivors
- List several evidence-based, integrative therapies that can be useful for patients with cancer and survivors
- Describe the importance of integrating non-conventional therapies with conventional ones and coordinating care between providers
- United Patients Group
Publisher: United Patients Group
Access: free
UPG is a resource in medical cannabis for physicians, patients and organizations, acting as a conduit between worldwide medical institutions and the medical cannabis industry. They offer CME education courses and one-on-one consulting to physicians and medical institutions. United Patients Group’s Seal of Approval is awarded to medical professionals, organizations and companies for superior medical cannabis services and reliable medical cannabis products.
- Wholesome Resources
By Julie Lusk, MEd
Access: freepurchase
This website contains information about workshops, resource materials and professional training on stress management, wellness promotion, and mind-body techniques and strategies.
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