complementary therapies Archives - CancerChoices



Breast Cancer Therapies with Brian Bouch, MD

CancerChoices advisor Brian Bouch, MD, provides an overview of therapies for various types of breast cancer, including supplements that may help.

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Prostate Cancer Therapies with Brian Bouch, MD

CancerChoices advisor Brian Bouch, MD, provides an overview of different therapies for prostate cancer, including supplements that may help.

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The Difference between CAM and Integrative Medicine with Donald Abrams, MD

CancerChoices advisor Donald Abrams, MD, discusses the difference between CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) and integrative medicine.

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Integrative Care for Advanced Breast Cancer: Results from the Block Center with Keith Block, MD

CancerChoices advisor Keith Block, MD, discusses a published study investigating the impacts of integrative care on women with advanced metastatic breast cancer receiving care at the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment.

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Meet the Practitioner: Dr. Jen Green, ND, FABNO, Naturopathic Oncologist

In this insightful podcast, Dr. Jen Green, a naturopathic doctor specializing in oncology, provides a wealth of information about integrative oncology and how it can complement conventional cancer care.

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What to Do When Your Oncologist Doesn’t Support Complementary Therapies

What might you do when your oncologist doesn’t support your desire to incorporate complementary therapies and self-care practices into your care plan?

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CancerChoices Year-end Reflections—2023

We want to help you or someone you care for to live as well as possible for as long as possible. The way we do all of this is to help you or someone you care for understand both the strengths and weaknesses of all three modalities—conventional, self-care and complementary approaches.

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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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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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