Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies

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Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies is written by David J. Hess and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813525942 (ISBN 10) and 9780813525945 (ISBN 13).

At least half a million American cancer patients are using complementary and alternative medicine therapies such as dietary programmes, supplements, imagery and herbs, but little has been done to evaluate these therapies or to provide information about them to the public. As North American cancer rates in recent decades have risen so that a person's lifetime risk is now over one in three, the questions that patients and clinicians have about alternative treatments have continued to grow. How can patients and clinicians make sense of the various options?