Visits with My Dead

Hundreds of people, especially Cancer Help Program alumni, have told me similar stories of friends and family who have appeared to them as they died, or were about to die, or after they died.

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New Efforts to Make Cell Therapies Like CAR-T More Accessible for Patients

Cell therapies like CAR-T are an extraordinary new class of drugs that have the potential to successfully treat cancer.

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Healing and Curing

In Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, Michael Lerner describes both healing and curing cancer, suggesting how they differ and how they relate to each other. This post draws from the second chapter of his book.

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7 Healing Practices: Being Active in Your Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

Did you know that being active in your wellness by building practices and habits can improve your outcomes with conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, surgery, and immunotherapy?

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How to Evaluate Trustworthiness of Websites on Complementary Cancer Therapies

How can you tell the sites with supportable claims from those that are less trustworthy?

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The Evidence House: Valuing What the Physician Sees in Practice

Interpreting study results involves assessing the trade-offs between highly controlled situations and relevance to real life, then using the evidence that makes the most sense in the situation.

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Why Randomized Controlled Trials Don’t Always Tell the Real-World Story

RCTs are not always the best approach to get definitive answers to clinical questions.

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Complementary Therapies and Cancer: How Much Evidence Is Enough?

We view the use of science-informed, low-risk, affordable therapies as a reasonable option for patients. Stronger evidence of benefit is needed for therapies that are risky, expensive, or otherwise burdensome.

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Understanding Research Studies

Evidence that a therapy “works” runs a whole range from unreliable to trustworthy. In this post, we consider the design of research studies.

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