Resources We Use Most Frequently

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.

By Gerald Lemole, MD; Pallav Mehta, MD; and Dwight McKee, MD

Publisher: Rodale Books

Date Published: August 25, 2015

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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.

By Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Date Published: 2018

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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.

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.

Publisher: CAM-Cancer Collaboration

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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.

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.

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.

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This site publishes independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals identify the best quality health and nutrition products.

By Donald I. Abrams, MD, and Andrew T. Weil, MD

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date Published: 2014

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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.

By Keith I. Block, MD

Publisher: Bantam Dell

Date Published: 2009

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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.

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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.

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.

By Neil McKinney, BSc, ND

Publisher: Liaison Press

Date Published: 2016

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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.

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.

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.

By Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, and Karolyn Gazella

Publisher: Celestial Arts

Date Published: 2010

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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.

By Ralph Moss, PhD

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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.