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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.

The Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was established in 1999 to complement mainstream medical care and address the emotional, social, and spiritual needs of patients and families. The Service includes: patient and outpatient clinical care research, and education and training. In addition, the Service provides unique access to otherwise unavailable information about over-the-counter products and unproven cancer treatments and their impact in the context of cancer care via our About Herbs database

Acupuncturists, dietary-supplement makers and other alternative health practitioners, some of whose treatments are considered unproven by the medical establishment, would be brought more squarely into the mainstream of American medicine under the health legislation now before the Senate.

The healthcare technology industry is no different from other industries in having fashion and trends. Two years ago, PHR (Personal Health Records) systems were fashionable and today they're not - probably because the business model for PHR applications is unclear and unproven. Today - social networking for healthcare is hot and I'm confident that once the market shakes out the buzz words from the business, we'll see social software playing a big part in revolutionizing healthcare with vastly more effective doctor-patient communications and collaboration, improved outcomes, better compliance and better patient education.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm the author of the book The Doctor Who Cures Cancer. But today I'd like to talk to you about my easy victory over my own Stage 4 cancer.\n\nThe truth is that I was only able to come up with a key part of this extremely simple cure from what I learned from writing the book.