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Volume 359:542-543 July 31, 2008 Number 5
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Integrative Oncology: Incorporating Complementary Medicine into Conventional Cancer Care

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(Current Clinical Oncology.) Edited by Lorenzo Cohen and Maurie Markman. 216 pp., illustrated. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2008. $79.95. ISBN 978-1-58829-869-0.

This comprehensive and practical book describes the experiences of the pioneers who established integrative oncology programs at five of the leading National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States: the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Rochester, Minnesota. It discusses the challenges of providing therapies that "exist at the interface of science and healing" at institutions with reputations for "providing world class conventional, . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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