Journal ICT December 06
Evaluating Complex Healing Modalities in Cancer:
What are the Best Strategies?
Guest Editor: Wayne B. Jonas, MD
Integrative Cancer Therapies
Sponsors
Samueli Institute
Purpose & Focus
To determine whether "top of the evidence hierarchy" approaches - clinical and laboratory research - have, so far, moved s toward answering relevant questions about the use of complementary medicine and to explore alternatives to those approaches in complementary medicine for cancer.
Audience
Basic and clinical scientists, academics, health maintenance organization providers and administrators, policy makers and philosophers.
Outcome
The 15 papers prepared were published as a special issue in the journal, Integrative Cancer Therapies in 2006.
Table of Contents
"Top of the Hierarchy" Evidence for Integrative Medicine: What Are
the Best Strategies?
Keith I. Block and Wayne B. Jonas
Evidence Summaries and Synthesis: Necessary but Insufficient Approach
for Determining Clinical Practice of Integrated Medicine?
Ian D. Coulter
A Whole Systems Research Approach to Cancer Care: Why Do We Need It
and How Do We Get Started?
Marja J. Verhoef, Laura C. Vanderheyden, and Vinjar Fønnebø
Models for the Study of Whole Systems
Iris R. Bell and Mary Koithan
Acupuncture Care for Breast Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy: A
Feasibility Study
Sarah Price, George Lewith, and Kate Thomas
Proposal for an Integrated Evaluation Model for the Study of Whole
Systems Health Care in Cancer
Wayne B. Jonas, William Beckner, and Ian Coulter
Laboratory Research in Homeopathy: Pro
Anisur R. Khuda-Bukhsh
Laboratory Research in Homeopathy: Con
John R. Moffett, Peethambaran Arun, and M. A. A. Namboodiri
Can Homeopathic Treatment Slow Prostate Cancer Growth?
Wayne B. Jonas, Jaya P. Gaddipati, N. V. Rajeshkumar, Anuj Sharma,
Rajesh L. Thangapazham, Jim Warren, Anoop K. Singh, John A. Ives, Cara Olsen,
Steven R. Mog, and Radha K. Maheshwari
Effect of Homeopathic Treatment on Gene Expression in Copenhagen Rat
Tumor Tissues
Rajesh L. Thangapazham, N. V. Rajeshkumar, Anuj Sharma, Jim Warren,
Anoop K. Singh, John A. Ives, Jaya P. Gaddipati, Radha K. Maheshwari, and Wayne
B. Jonas
Homeopathic Medicines Do Not Alter Growth and Gene Expression in
Prostate and Breast Cancer Cells In Vitro
Rajesh L. Thangapazham, Jaya P. Gaddipati, N. V. Rajeshkumar, Anuj
Sharma, Anoop K. Singh, John A. Ives, Radha K. Maheshwari, and Wayne B. Jonas
Effects of Homeopathic Preparations on Human Prostate Cancer Growth
in Cellular and Animal Models
Brian W. MacLaughlin, Babett Gutsmuths, Ewald Pretner, Wayne B. Jonas,
John Ives, Don Victor Kulawardane, and Hakima Amri
Integrative Tumor Board: Metastatic Breast Cancer
Amanda Koch, Jen Ellis, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Debu Tripathy, Charles
Lo, Menachem Oberbaum, Noah Samuels, Shepherd Roee Singer, Girish Gupta, and
Keith Block
Case Report of a Pituitary Macroadenoma Treated With Artemether
Narendra P. Singh and Vijay Kumar Panwar
Long-term Survival of a Patient With Widespread Metastases From
Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Receiving Mind-Body Therapies: Case Report and
Review of the Literature
Shahar Lev-ari, Yair Maimon, and Neora Yaal-Hahoshen
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