Alternative Medicine Repertory

Alternative Cancer Treatments is a web site which offers access to clinics in Atlanta, GA and Tucson, AZ at which a variety of alternative therapies for cancer are offered. Therapies used range widely through traditional medical approaches, integrated with homeopathy, nutritional therapies, acupuncture, massage, and various sorts of counseling.

The World's Best Alternative Cancer Care Sites comes to us from the Puna Wai Ora South Aukland Cancer Clinic & Well Being Centre, in New Zealand. The site lists (or points to) 57 of what its creators deem to be the "best" sites on the web for information about alternative cancer therapies. The site also offers information about the "cancer personality" and counseling, lowering stress cortisol, increasing melatonin, cleansing the body, nutrition, boosting the immune system and self-hypnosis

Unconventional Cancer Therapies is a publication of the BC Cancer Agency. The manual offers a great deal of information on a variety of cancer treatment modalities in order to assist the patient in critically evaluating claims made by proponents of unproven or unconventional cancer therapies. It is arranged simply in alphabetic fashion by the names of the therapies covered. Entries are standardized so that you can quickly find the claims that are made for the therapy and the possible toxic effects of treatment, among other kinds of information. References to publications for further reading are often available.

A group called: Rene Caisse Cancer Research Canada has mounted a website called: *Rene Caisse: Canada's Cancer Nurse & the History of Essiac , which just about says it all! The site is attractive, easy to navigate and full of information you can't get elsewhere on the web.

The *Annie Appleseed Project was created by a woman with cancer who wanted to be able to make educated and informed choices about the various therapies available to her. The project acts to spread news, views and information about access to alternative cancer therapies. Much of the information on the site comes from patients; the scientific community has acted very slowly in researching alternative or complementary therapies for cancer and patients can sometimes not wait for scientific approbation before taking action. There are many useful resources on this site; among them are links to other sites where useful information about alternative therapies can be located.

cancer.gov, from the U.S. National Cancer Institute now includes a section on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, providing Credible. Current. Comprehensive. information for alternative therapies, as it does on cancer, in general. Under the general heading: *Complementary and Alternative Medicine you will find entries for topics such as: 714-X, Cancell, Coenzyme Q-10, Shark Cartilage, Gerson Therapy, Laetrile, Mistletoe and more. Each entry is thoroughly researched and has lots of references to other sources of information. A note indicates that the information has been compiled for use by doctors and other professionals, but explanations of the technical terms used are available and a confidence level for the evidence given is shown. Each entry is dated so that its currency is clear. This is a highly useful and trustworthy source of information on the efficacy of alternative cancer therapies.