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  2. Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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    The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) is an office of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. . OCCAM was founded in 1998 and is responsible for NCI's research agenda in pseudoscientific complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), as it relates to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and symptom management

  3. Alternative cancer treatments - Wikipedia

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    Breast cancer patients choosing alternative medicine were 5.68 times more likely to die within five years of diagnosis. [10] Although they are more likely to die than non-users, some users of alternative treatments feel a greater sense of control over their destinies and report less anxiety and depression. [24]

  4. Hydrocortisone - Wikipedia

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    Hydrocortisone is the pharmaceutical term for cortisol used in oral administration, intravenous injection, or topical application.It is used as an immunosuppressive drug, given by injection in the treatment of severe allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis and angioedema, in place of prednisolone in patients needing steroid treatment but unable to take oral medication, and perioperatively in ...

  5. Category:Alternative cancer treatments - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 19 September 2013, at 13:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Hydroxycarbamide - Wikipedia

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    Hydroxycarbamide has been used primarily for the treatment of myeloproliferative diseases, which has an inherent risk of transforming to acute myeloid leukemia. There has been a longstanding concern that hydroxycarbamide itself carries a leukemia risk, but large studies have shown that the risk is either absent or very small.

  7. Alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to much popular and scientific writing, many alternative cancer treatments have been investigated in good-quality clinical trials, and they have been shown to be ineffective. The label "unproven" is inappropriate for such therapies; it is time to assert that many alternative cancer therapies have been "disproven". [133]

  8. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

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    The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) before receiving its current name in 2014. [1]

  9. Cetrorelix - Wikipedia

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    Cetrorelix (INN Tooltip International Nonproprietary Name, BAN Tooltip British Approved Name), or cetrorelix acetate (USAN Tooltip United States Adopted Name, JAN Tooltip Japanese Accepted Name), sold under the brand name Cetrotide, is an injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist.