Today a Huffington Post blogger writing about alternative and complementary therapies (ACTs) mentioned the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital's use of acupuncture in the treatment of cancer. As the blog states, the National Cancer Institute maintains a library of publicly available information on complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is another resource for primarily patient-centric CAM resources. Much of the information available through the NCI and NCCAM is useful for individuals and families looking for information about cancer and the risks and potential benefits associated with various alternative therapies.
While both the NCI and NCCAM provide some resources for healthcare providers (NCCAM has a dedicated page, as well as providing directed searches in PubMed), the best resource is always going to be a library, which is able to provide access to current research unavailable to the wider public as well as expert search strategies. We here at Treadwell have a wealth of resources on complementary therapies:
- a large number of books on the topic
- access to Consumerlab, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, and Natural Standard, databases that focus on complementary therapies and medicines (also accessible via our database page)
- a curated list of resources on CAM, licensed to the MGH community
We have these resources to support the MGH providers using acupuncture and other alternative therapies, so if you have any questions about them or how to find more information on this topic, come to us!
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