Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies

This book represents truly pioneering work. It brings much needed information about the best of new cancer treatments to those who need it most and it does so with compassion and an inspired bedside manner.-Dean Ornish, M.D.Drawing on the studies and critiques of many of the world's most gifted researchers and clinicians, this book scientifically explores the most promising complementary and alternative therapies-and sifts through the often frustrating and confusing barrage of information and misinformation about them-to provide readers with the direction and help they need to create an individualized cancer-care strategy. Comprehensive Cancer Care includes reports on the most accepted and researched complementary and alternative practices, empowering advice for patients with clear action steps for speaking to doctors, and critical discussion of cutting-edge interventions.

Author: James Gordon, Sharon Curtin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 04/02/2001
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.09w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780738204864

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 249

About the Author
James S. Gordon, M.D., author of Manifesto for a New Medicine, is the Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. A clinical professor of medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, he is also director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., and creator of the Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference.