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Learn about the different kinds of cancer care that can be combined to improve your quality of life and outcomes. Explore how to build a plan that aligns with your unique situation and goals.

You have within you the potential to change, and sometimes transform, your experience of living with cancer.

Choices in Healing
  • What Is Integrative Cancer Care? Your cancer care plan can combine the best and most appropriate treatments for you from different medical approaches to optimize your health, quality of life, and/or clinical outcomes.
  • Choices in Conventional Care No decisions will be more fateful than your choices in conventional cancer treatment. Make them with care.
  • Choices in Self Care Health-promoting lifestyle choices and practices you can do on your own at low or no cost
  • Choices in Complementary Care Therapies and practices that “complement” conventional care include supplements, mind-body approaches, off-label drugs, and more.

Guidance on practical issues including finding health professionals, making skillful decisions, affording and accessing care, and more.

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Directly explore our many free cancer care resources. See our reviews of therapies that your doctor may not mention, or investigate handbooks with guidance on key topics.

These reviews summarize the medical benefits, safety and cost of complementary therapies. Complementary therapies may be used along with conventional treatments such as chemotherapy or surgery. Many can help you manage side effects of conventional treatments and promote wellness. Some may enhance the effects of conventional treatments.

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  • 7 Healing Practices These practices are well supported by research to improve your resilience and wellness. Many are linked to longer survival and to better management of side effects and symptoms.
  • Healthy Lifestyle Making healthy lifestyle choices can improve your general health and promote wellness. They may also reduce your risk of cancer and improve survival.

A collection of handbooks on using an integrative approach for specific cancer types, with different treatments, or depending on where you are in your cancer experience.

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  • Managing Symptoms & Side Effects Find guidance on reducing and managing symptoms and side effects common during cancer to improve your quality of life.
  • Body Terrain Handbooks Learn how to strengthen your internal body environment to promote health and wellness and limit cancer's ability to grow and spread.
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Directly explore our many free cancer care resources. See our reviews of therapies that your doctor may not mention or handbooks with guidance on key topics.

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