CancerChoices is a unique resource for people with cancer and for health professionals. I highly recommend CancerChoices as an invaluable source of useful information. In addition to honoring skillful use of conventional therapies, it offers objective evaluations of unconventional ones and of many natural products with purported health benefits. I find its analyses and advice to be balanced and thoughtful.

Andrew Weil, MD, Founder, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

CancerChoices offers something more than the newest and best scientific integrative and alternative approaches to the interface with cancer. Cancer happens to a person, a family, and a community, and is the occasion of profound transformation at all of these levels. No one emerges through the same door they went in. The cancer experience has the potential to enable people to recognize for the first time their unique strengths, their life purpose, the deeper meaning of their past choices, and the direction of their future. It can give them the authority to live from their most authentic values and release previously unseen barriers to their will to live. Usually this aspect of the cancer experience is left to chance. CancerChoices offers the most innovative and effective ways to further their spiritual transformation and supports people in bringing their whole selves to the experience of cancer. What results is not only their best chance to survive but to emerge more whole, more fully alive, than ever before.

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Founder, Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, and Medical Director, Commonweal Cancer Help Program

Kudos to the creators of CancerChoices, an incredibly rich resource for patients trying to navigate the maze of complementary therapies and how to integrate them with standard treatment options. CancerChoices is overflowing with invaluable information, easily accessible and visually stunning. The site jumps to the top of my list of recommended resources for people living with and beyond cancer and their caregivers. An amazing encyclopedic compendium of the current state of integrative cancer care!

Donald Abrams, MD, Integrative Oncologist (retired), UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

When you receive a diagnosis of cancer—as I have—you quickly find that everyone has an opinion: see this doctor, go to that clinic, buy this supplement, go on this diet. Why? Because it’s what they did, or their Aunt Sally, or they read it somewhere in a magazine. Until now, there has been no reliable online resource for sourcing up-to-date, evidence-based information about the efficacy of the many complementary therapies used to treat cancer. I am grateful to Michael Lerner and the staff at Commonweal for seeing this hole and filling it so ambitiously. For practitioners as well as patients, CancerChoices is one-stop-shopping for locating the best complementary and integrative resources available to all those who hear, or have to say to others, the words: ‘You have cancer.’

Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, Founder, Anticancer Lifestyle Program

CancerChoices is an exceptional resource. There is certainly no shortage of information about integrative cancer care on the internet. The challenge is to find credible, trustworthy and reliable information. CancerChoices provides just this, and it doesn’t end there. This site provides informed hope and inspires confidence in individuals diagnosed with cancer as well as in their caregivers. Information is power—the power to make informed choices and to be an active participant in your own treatment experience. CancerChoices is at the top of my referral list for web-based information on integrative cancer care—a sparkling gem to illuminate your cancer journey.

Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine and Assistant Director of the the Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

For those with advanced cancer, which is about half of all people who get cancer, very few options other than rather harsh treatments or palliative care are offered. I call it “whack a mole.” But the promise from science shows there is so much more. No one understands the need for CancerChoices more than those with cancer. I urge all those touched by cancer—patients, relatives, spouses, friends, physicians, researchers—to drop your egos and get out of our narrow box. We must go beyond.

Wayne Jonas, MD, Executive Director, Samueli Integrative Health Programs

CancerChoices is a rare gift for people with cancer and health professionals interested in integrative oncology. Michael Lerner has been a pioneer in integrative cancer care. His book Choices in Healing (MIT, 1994) laid the groundwork for objective evaluation of integrative cancer therapies. CancerChoices follows the same path—fearlessly objective, patient-centered, compassionate, with science and analysis carefully separated. CancerChoices breaks new ground by including “ONCAs”—off-label, overlooked and novel approaches that emerge from within mainstream medicine. It also boldly explores taboo subjects like psychedelic medicines and the role of intuition on the part of both the patient and the physician. CancerChoices is a necessary resource for anyone with a serious interest in integrating the best of conventional and complementary cancer therapies.

Dwight McKee, MD, Oncology Consultant