Integrative Cancer Care Handbooks

Find a wealth of information about integrative medical care for people with breast cancer, including before, during, and after cancer treatment.

Find a wealth of information about integrative medical care for people with prostate cancer, including making decisions about cancer treatment.

An integrative approach to surgery involves actively preparing for surgery, making wise choices about pain control during and after surgery, and promoting a balanced body terrain all throughout your surgery experience.

You may have reached a point where conventional treatments are not right for you. We help you assess your options.

Palliative care in cancer can help you manage symptoms and side effects or meet physical or psychosocial needs at any stage after a cancer diagnosis.

Self-care practices and complementary therapies can help people with cancer manage anxiety and improve cancer outcomes.

An overview of self-care practices and complementary therapies to treat depression in the context of cancer.

Fatigue, whether from cancer or from the demands of caregiving, can impair your quality of life, but several therapies and practices can provide relief.

Gastrointestinal upsets such as nausea, vomiting, constipation, and diarrhea can be common during some cancer treatments. Finding relief can not only greatly enhance your quality of life, but may help you maintain your body weight and even complete your treatment.

In addition to a sensation of heat, hot flashes can cause nausea, anxiety, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and headache. Managing hot flashes can help you maintain your daily activities and improve your quality of life.

Neurological symptoms such as chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) can have substantial impacts on your quality of life and ability to complete cancer treatment. Conventional and complementary therapies can help you manage these symptoms.

Cancer-related pain is common, especially in advanced cancer. Conventional and complementary therapies, including self-care practices, can help you manage pain.

Sleep disruption, also called insomnia, can greatly impact your quality of life, but therapies can help you achieve quality sleep.

Your body terrain is your inner environment. You can improve your body terrain to make it less welcoming and supportive of cancer and improve your outcomes.

Having a healthy body weight is linked to lower risk of many types of cancer, fewer or less severe symptoms and treatment side effects, and in some cases better survival after diagnosis.

Chronically high levels of blood sugar and insulin can create conditions favorable to cancer growth and spread. Learn how to manage blood sugar.

Vitamin D levels in blood that are either too low or too high are linked to worse outcomes in cancer.

Our bodies have developed a symbiotic relationship with organisms living in and on our bodies. Research links your microbiome—and changes in it—to several types of cancer and how well you respond to some conventional cancer treatments