Abrams Donald I. - Integrative Oncology

Published And Forthcoming Volumes

SERIES EDITOR

Andrew T. Weil, MD

Donald I. Abrams and Andrew T. Weil: Integrative Oncology

Timothy Culbert and Karen Olness: Integrative Pediatrics

Daniel A. Monti and Bernard D. Beitman: Integrative Psychiatry

Victoria Maizes and Tieraona Low Dog: Integrative Womens Health

Gerard Mullin: Integrative Gastroenterology

Randy Horwitz and Daniel Muller: Integrative Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology

Stephen DeVries and James Dalen: Integrative Cardiology

Robert Norman, Philip Shenefelt, and Reena Rupani: Integrative Dermatology

Myles Spar and George Munoz: Integrative Mens Health

Robert A. Bonakdar and Andrew W. Sukiennik: Integrative Pain Management

Mary Jo Kreitzer and Mary Koithan, Integrative Nursing

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Integrative oncology (Abrams)
Integrative oncology / edited by Donald I. Abrams, Andrew T. Weil. Second edition.
p. ; cm. (Integrative medicine library)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780199329724 (alk. paper)
I. Abrams, Donald I., editor of compilation. II. Weil, Andrew, editor of compilation.
III. Title. IV. Series: Weil integrative medicine library.
[DNLM: 1. Neoplasmstherapy. 2. Complementary Therapies.
3. Integrative Medicine. QZ 266]
RC254.5
616.99406dc23
2014000082

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Integrative medicine (IM) is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, spirit), as well as all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and complementary. IM is not synonymous with alternative medicine or with CAM (complementary and alternative medicine). It neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative treatments uncritically.

Integrative medicine is a rapidly growing movement in North America. Consumer demand for it has increased steadily over the past decades. Now, as the conventional health-care system collapses because of out-of-control escalation of costs of high-tech medicine, medical institutions are finally taking IM seriously. The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine has 57 members; among them are many leading medical schools, whose deans and chancellors recognize the need to move medical education, research, and practice in this direction. A major reason for the acceptance of IM is awareness that it can lower health-care costs in two ways: (1) by shifting the focus of health care from disease management to health promotion through its attention to lifestyle and the innate healing potentials of the human organism; and (2) by bringing lower-cost treatments into the mainstream that can give outcomes as good as or better than those of pharmaceutical drugs and other conventional therapies.

Practitioners are also increasingly drawn to IM because they recognize its potential to restore core values of medicine that have eroded in the era of profit-driven health care. Yet demand for clinicians trained to practice IM greatly exceeds supply. The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine that I founded in 1994 has graduated more than 1000 physicians (and some nurse practitioners) from comprehensive fellowships, mostly in distributed learning formats. Many of them now direct IM programs at other institutions, some are training others, and some have authored leading textbooks in the field. The Center also trains medical students, pharmacists, and medical residents. One of its major goals is to develop a core curriculum in IM that will become a required, accredited part of all residency training in all medical specialties.

In the meantime, there is an immediate need to organize and make accessible to many more clinicians the basic principles of IM in practical application to common health conditions. It is hoped that the present series of volumes will help fulfill that need. Each volume will cover the relevance of IM to a particular specialty, and each will draw on the editorial expertise of a specialist who is fully trained in IM as well as the advice of senior experts who are open to, but not directly involved with, the IM movement. Each volume will also give detailed protocols for the management of conditions that respond well to integrative treatment and will discuss areas of controversy and uncertainty where further research is needed.