Complementary and Alternative Treatments Patient Resource Area

Alternative treatments are those proposed as an alternative to the standard treatment for cancer. Complimentary therapies are treatments proposed in addition to standard treatments. Complementary therapies are often provided alongside the standard.

ACS: Complementary and Alternative Therapies
The American Cancer Society provides and overview of "complementary alternative therapies".

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Informational resources on herbs, botanifals and other products from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), part of the national Institutes of health (NIH) is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practice.

Quackwatch
Quackwatch, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies.

University of Virginia: The Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CSCAT)
The Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CSCAT) at the University of Virginia was established to stimulate research in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The research theme in the CSCAT has focused on pain and pain-related symptoms as well as the study of basic physiological mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of selected CAM modalities.