Links
WEB SITES FOR CANCER INFORMATION
Cancer Decisions is the web site of Ralph W. Moss, PhD, an independent researcher who has been investigating and writing about promising cancer treatments since 1974. Formerly science writer and assistant director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, he is "probably the most knowledgeable writer in the world on alternative therapies for cancer," according to Julian Whitaker, MD in his Health and Healing newsletter.
Annie Appleseed Project provides information, education, advocacy, and awareness for people with cancer and their family and friends who are interested in complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and natural therapies from a patient's perspective.
Cancer Monthly is the only centralized source of the survival rates and side-effects of hundreds of the latest cancer treatments. It also provides access to cancer news, clinical trials, medical scientific reports, cancer hospitals, information on specific cancers, alternative and integrative approaches, and much more.
Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at UCSF provides information on cancer research and clinical trials.
National Cancer Institute provides a comprehensive article on the effect of acupuncture on cancer, immune function, cancer pain, and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
National Library of Medicine's PubMed provides over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Pine Street Foundation for Complementary Cancer Research helps people with cancer reach more informed treatment decisions through education and research.
Sites for information on Functional Tumor Cell Profiling (Functional Tumor Cell Profiling is a laboratory test – several tests, actually - that measure the abilities of different drugs to kill living tumor cells obtained from individual cancer patients):
Weisenthal Cancer Group is a laboratory-based medical oncology practice located in Huntington Beach, CA. Founded in 1992 by Larry Weisenthal, M.D., Ph.D., a board certified medical oncologist with 30 years experience in developing and applying laboratory testing methods to guide therapy selection for individual cancer patients.
Rational Therapeutics™, Inc. (RTI) is a free-standing research laboratory located in Long Beach, CA. Founded in 1993 by Dr. Robert Nagourney, a prominent hematologist/oncologist, RTI "functionally profiles" individual patient's living tumor.
LINKS TO ARTICLES ON ANTIOXIDANTS, CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION
Treating the Undesirable Effects of Radiation and Chemotherapy with Chinese Medicine by Z'ev Rosenberg, L. Ac., Dipl. Ac.
Natural Products to Support Chemotherapy by Dr. Michael Murray
Should Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Be Prescribed Antioxidants? by Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, and Antioxidants by Johanna Altgelt and Michael McCulloch
LINKS TO ARTICLES ON SUPPLEMENTS/HERBS AND MEDICINE
Improved Outcomes When Combining TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) with Western Interventions for Cancer by Jake Paul Fratkin, OMD, LAc
War on Cancer: Some Promising Non-Conventional Treatments by Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Chemotherapy Fatigue Significantly Reduced Through Intervention Using CTF Nutritional Supplement Protocol by Earl Surwit, MD, et al.
Coriolus Versicolor: A Medicinal Mushroom Used in Cancer Therapy by Andrew Gaeddert
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Fruit Peel to Cancer Fighter: The Past, Present, and Promising Future of
Modified Citrus Pectin (Click to Download PDF) by Isaac Eliaz, M.D.,
M.S., L.Ac.
Updated November 14, 2008