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Complementary and Alternative Medicine & Cancer
American Botanical Council
The American Botanical Council is a source for reliable herbal medicine information.

MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Complementary/Integrative Medicine Education Resources (CIMER)
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) are therapies of proven or unproven efficacy that have been used to promote wellness, to manage symptoms associated with cancer and its treatment or to treat cancer. When properly combined with standard cancer treatments, some complementary therapies can enhance wellness and quality of life, but others may be harmful during or after treatment for cancer. Most, but not all, are natural products. MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Complementary/Integrative Medicine Education Resources (CIMER) website is offered to help patients and physicians decide how best to integrate such therapies into their care.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides information for cancer patients on services that are not part of conventional or traditional medicine. 

Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM)
The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) was established to coordinate and enhance the activities of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the arena of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).


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