Barrie R. Cassileth

Barrie R. Cassileth, PhD, is a researcher of complementary and alternative medicine, and has published extensively on alternative cancer treatments. She founded the Integrative Medicine Service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she remains the chief, and holds the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine. [http://www.mskcc.org/prg/prg/bios/525.cfm Physician Biography] ] She also founded the [http://www.integrativeonc.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=8efe8ef033693baa0719fa4ff6b6709e Society for Integrative Oncology] , which publishes a medical journal.

She has attracted some controversy in the alternative medicine community, as she was a member of both the American Cancer Society's Subcommittee on Questionable Methods of Cancer Management and the US Office of Alternative Medicine. [Moss, Ralph. (1993) [ACS OFFICIAL CONTINUES ON OAM BOARD:CASSILETH, CLAIMING "GOOFS", REFUSES TO RESIGN http://www.ralphmoss.com/Cassileth2.html] "The Cancer Chronicles" ]

Papers

*cite journal | author = Vickers, Andrew J.; Kuo, Joyce; Cassileth, Barrie R. | year = 2006 | title = Unconventional Anticancer Agents: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials | journal = Journal of Clinical Oncology | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 136 | doi = 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.8406 | url = http://www.jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/136 | pmid = 16382123 | format = w

Books

*Citation | author = Cassileth, B. R. | year = 1998 | title = The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=vtqyHAAACAAJ publisher = New York: WW Norton

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