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Posted by Diane C.-TX on 5/21/2008, 9:27 am, in reply to "Re: Hi Deanna.............................................................."
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Good Morning Deanna. CAM is primarily used as an adjunct to conventional treatment regimens and is used by an ever-increasing number of clients with cancer. Certain CAM therapies can be used at any time along the cancer continuum---at diagnosis, at recurrence(localized or metastasized disease), whewn asymptomatic, and for palliation in advanced disease. There are six major categories of CAM: Nutritional and dietary regimens, Traditional and folk medicines, Pharmacologic and biologic treatments, Botanical("herbal") medicines, Mind-body-spirit techniques, and Manual healing and physical touch methods. The use of CAM helps alleviate the orchestrated "one-size-fits-all" health care delivery provided today and enables us to focus on quality of life and on the patient rather than on the "tumor". I have found and will list 13 internet resource sites with their web addresses for a place for you to become familiar with what is already available here in the United States. I am not familiar to any resources you may have in Canada, but at least you can reference these in order to explore more options for your mom.
(1) American Cancer Society: Complementary and Alternative Therapies..... http://www.cancer.org
(2) CancerSource:Complementary & Integrative Therapies..... http://cit.cancersource.com/
(3) Dunn, Steven:CancerGuide..... http://www.cancerguide.org
(4) Longwood Herbal Task Force..... http://www.mcp.edu/herbal
(5) M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:Complementary/Integrative Medicine..... http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/CIMER
(6) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center:About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products..... http://www.mskcc.org/aboutherbs
(7) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine..... http://www.nccam.nih.gov
(8) Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database..... http://www.naturaldatabase.com
(9) NCCAM Cam on PubMed..... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html
(10) NCI cancer.gov:Complementary and Alternative Medicine..... http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/treatment/cam
(11) NIH ClinicalTrials.gov:Linking Patients to Medical Research..... http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
(12) Quackwatch..... http://www.quackwatch.org
(13) Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine:Carol Ann Schwartz, Cancer Initiative..... http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/cancer/info/infosheets.html
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I hope I did not overload you with too many resources and wish you and your mom continued best wishes, Love, "Lady Di the butterfly"
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