Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
Quack Watch
This is an extensive article regarding "questionable methods as lifestyle practices, clinical tests, or therapeutic modalities that are promoted for general use for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer and which are, on the basis of careful review by scientists and/or clinicians, deemed to have no real evidence of value". Information on things from antineoplastins to shark cartilage. There are 65 reference articles. Also there is a section on misrepresentations. From the home page (www.quackwatch.com) there is a ton of other information.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine on ACOR's Ped-Onc
This site divides this subject into complementary therapies to conventional therapy that is outside the practices of most conventional physicians, but are generally recognized as safe to use along with chemotherapy and radiation (art and music therapy, meditation, reiki, yoga, aromatherapy, and also nutrition and vitamin supplements). Some people feel this can improve the quality of life of the patient, relieve symptoms, relieve side effects, ease pain, and give the patient a better outlook on life. The other section is on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) which are therapies that are outside the practices of most conventional physicians and their value has not yet been established in scientific journals Extensive links on this site.
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH site)
This site has information for consumers including fact sheets, alerts, and ongoing clinical trials.
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Complementary/Intergrative Medicine Educational Resource at MD Anderson Site
This site was created to assist patients and health care professionals in deciding what types of complementary medicine might be integrated into a patient's conventional therapy. There is a lot of information but no recommendations.
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Steve Dunn's Cancer Guide
This site presents guidelines for evaluating treatments, as well as discussions of some of the treatments and links to other web sites and books with more information.
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A Cancer Patient's Guide To Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This is a guide written by Duke for their patients. It is quite detailed with several appendices. There are 192 pages in Acrobat Reader Format.
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