2000 Transcripts: Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference
Comprehensive Cancer Care 2000

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Below are transcripts from The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's third annual conference, Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Complementary and Alternative Therapies, which was held on June 7-11, in Arlington, VA. We have transcribed and edited the audio recordings of the conference and have made them available to you through this site.

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Please take a moment to give thanks to the University of Texas Medical School, The National Cancer Institute, The National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine, and OneBody.com. Without their support this conference would not have been possible!

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Keynote & Plenary Sessions

01 Conference Opening  (46 KB)
James S. Gordon, MD & Senator Tom Harkin

02 The Heart of Cancer Care and the Future of Medicine  (34 KB)
James S. Gordon, MD

03 Choices in Healing and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement  (43 KB)
Michael Lerner, PhD

05 Crafting the NCCAM Research Agenda  (47 KB)
Stephen Strauss, MD

06 Panel: What Cancer Patients Really Want   (103 KB)
Penny George, PsyD, LP; Janice Post-White, RN, PhD; Brennan White; Joel Siegel; The Honorable Tom Andrews; Jean Achterberg, PhD & David Rosenthal, MD

07 Care at the End of Life  (36 KB)
Dale Borglum, PhD

08 Cancer Wars: Messages from the Front  (111 KB)
Nicholas Gonzalez, MD

09 Closing Ceremony

Concurrent Sessions

10 Cancer Centers: Issues of Integration  (76 KB)
Judy Gerner, BA, LPT; Laura Baynham, MA, LPC, MD; Simone Zappa, BS, MBA; Mary Jane Ott, MN, MA & John Martinez, MPT

11 How to Create a Healing Community  (110 KB)
Joanna Bull, MA, MFCC; Mitch Golant, PhD; Sandra Finestone, PsyD & Helene Brown

12 NCI: Best Case Series  (113 KB)
Pratip Banerji, MD; Prasanta Banerji, MD; Nicholas Gonzalez, MD & Jeffrey White, MD

13 The Role of the Nurse Healer in Integrated Cancer Care: Innovations Across the Country  (118 KB)
Susan Baur, RN, DNSc; Hob Osterlund, RN, MS & Janice Post-White, RN, PhD

14 Integrative Approaches to Breast Cancer  (69 KB)
Pamela Peeke, MD; John Pan MD; Jeremy Geffen, MD; Monique Class, MS, RN, CS & Leo Stolebach, MD

15 Mind-Body Medicine and Clinical Practice  (117 KB)
Michael Lerner, PhD; Jeanne Achterberg, PhD; Stephen Sagar, MD & Julia Rowland, PhD

16 Nutrition and Cancer Care
Leo Galland, MD; John Boik, MAcOM & Norton Fishman, MD

17 CAM Therapies and Pediatric Oncology  (120 KB)
Susan Sencer, MD; Janice Post-White, RN, PhD; Kara Kelly, MD & Stephen Schimpff, MD

18 Antioxidants with Radiation and Chemotherapy?  (66 KB)
Charles Simone, MD; Ralph Moss, MD; Rudolph Salganik, MD

19 Managing Pain and Other Symptoms  (85 KB)
Wendy Smith, PhD; Kristine Nelson, MD; Barbara St. Marie, RN, NP & Ann Berger, MD

20 Integrative Approaches with Prostrate Cancer  (60 KB)
Raymond Chang, MD; Mark Renneker, MD; Woodson Merrell, MD & William Fair, MD

21 NAET: Best Case Series
Ann McCombs, Do; Devi Nambudripad, RN, PhD, DC, Lac; Susan Lord, MD

22 The Alternative Medicine Foundation Best Case Series  (60 KB)
Wolfgang Woeppel, MD; Michael Gnatt, MD; Honorable Berkley Bedell & Robert Wittes, MD

23 Funding of CAM Cancer Research  (44 KB)
David Ringer, PhD; Omar Hottenstein, PhD; Donald Tarver, EdD; Elda Railey & Jeffrey White, MD

24 Homeopathic Treatment for Cancer  (90 KB)
Hakima Amri, PhD; Pratip Banerji, MD; Prasanta Banerji, MD; Joel Evans, MD & Susan Ellenberg, PhD

25 Most Promising Herbal Therapies  (130 KB)
Ralph Moss, PhD; Mark Blumenthal; Joseph Lamb, MD & Fredi Kronenberg, PhD

26 Glyconutrients  (109 KB)
Reg McDaniel, PhD; Susan Lord, MD & Daniel Nixon, MD

27 Methodological Issues in CAM Research  (141 KB)
Carmen Tamayo, MD; Alejandro Jadad, MD; Andrew Vickers, PhD & Stephen Sagar, MD

28 Helping Patients Cope  (66 KB)
Maureen Redl, MA, MFT; Howard Bell, MDiv; Ingrid Dilley, OTR; Susan Silberstein, PhD;
William George & Susan Haegar

Pre-Conference Workshops (Audio Available)

29 Protocol for Treating Cancer with Nutrition and Detoxification
Nicholas Gonzalez, MD & Henry Dreher

30 Mind-Body Skills Groups for Cancer Patients  (157 KB)
James S. Gordon, MD; Barbara Blitzer, LCSW-C; Joel Evans, MD; Carol Jacobs, LCSW; Julie Jacobson, MS, RN, CS; Susan Lord, MD, Kelsey Menehan, LSW-C & Judith Siegle, LSW-C

31 Care at the End of Life
Dale Borglum, PhD & Marion Werner, MEd

32 Creating Integrative Oncology Practices
Mitchell Gaynor, MD; Benjamin Pfeifer, MD; Giancarlo Pizza, MD & Stephen Sagar, MD

33 Creating Research Agenda for CAM Approaches to Neuro-Oncology
Sponsored by National Brain Tumor Foundation

34 Integrating CAM at Comprehensive Cancer Centers
Simone Zappa, MBA, RN; Debu Tripathy, MD; John Martinez, MPT & Mary Ann Richardson, DrPH

35 Nutrition and Cancer
John Boik, MAcOM; Leo Galland, MD & Richard Steinberg, MD

36 Programs of Comprehensive Cancer Care
Jeremy Geffen, MD; Wolfgang Woeppel, MD & Joel Evans, MD

37 Experiencing the Meaning of Cancer in Your Family
Bert Hellinger, Dipl; Hunter Beaumont; James S. Gordon, MD & Susan Lord, MD

38 Guided Imagery in Cancer
Martin Rossman, MD & Nancy Harazduk, MS, LICSW