Among the women treated with true acupuncture, findings demonstrated that they experienced significant improvement in joint pain and stiffness over the course of the study. Pain severity declined, and overall physical well-being improved. Additionally, 20 percent of the patients who had reported taking pain relief medications reported that they no longer needed to take these medications following acupuncture treatment.
Breast Cancer
FREE House Cleaning for Cancer Patients during Chemotherapy

If you know of a woman currently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning – once per month for 4 months while she is in treatment.
Healthy Medicine: A New Model of Cancer Care

What is Healthy Medicine? It is the recognition that our one-size-fits-all approach to medical practice is largely ineffective if our goal is healing. Healthy Medicine is a synthesis of complementary/alternative medicine with conventional modern allopathic medicine and energy medicine.
Calculate Your Risk of Breast Cancer with this iphone app
Women need to know their risk of Breast Cancer. If you know your risk you can take action and engage in Breast Cancer Prevention. You can address lifestyle changes. You can prevent cancer and cultivate health. You can learn about alternative cancer resources that focus on health and not disease.
Chronic Pain after Cancer Recovery: Acupuncture to the Rescue
Surviving cancer may not mean living without pain. At least two years after diagnosis 20% of cancer survivors suffer cancer-related chronic pain. Look to Alternative Cancer Care and Acupuncture for Relief of Cancer Related Pain.
Mammograms are Not Enough to Save Women From Breast Cancer
Watch this video by Dr. Deborah Rhodes, M.D. from her December 2010 talk at TEDWomen on why mammograms are not enough for early detection of breast cancer in women with dense breasts. Are you one of the many women who are not getting the right breast screening to prevent breast cancer?
Cancer Causing Chemicals: Dangerous Exposures Everyday

More than 80,000 chemicals now in use have never been fully assessed for toxic impacts on human health and the environment. Many of these chemicals are linked to increased incidence of cancer. Watch this shocking and disturbing video by expert Linda Greer.
Anti-Cancer Diet Shopping List and Checklist

By composing a diet out of the foods on this list, you will be choosing to:
detoxify cancer causing substances
support your immune system
lower inflammation
block cancer cells from invading other tissues
promote self-destruction of cancer cells through apoptosis
protect healthy cells with foods containing high levels of anti-oxidants and nutrients
stop the growth and spread of cancer by blocking the development of new blood vessels to cancer cells (angiogenesis)
EIGHT WAYS TO STAY HEALTHY, PREVENT and SURVIVE CANCER
Take control of your health, PREVENT CANCER and PROMOTE CANCER SURVIVAL. Take these to CREATE and SUSTAIN HEALTH. Over half of all serious disease in the United States could be prevented if people adopted healthier lifestyles. By following these eight recommendations, you can lower your risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and diabetes. Before you know it, you’ll also have more energy and get a boost to your mood.
Acupuncture and Cancer
Acupuncture is effective in helping cancer patients deal with pain, sleep, hot flashes, menopausal symptoms, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, immune support, bone marrow supprssion, anemia, digestion, diarrhea and constipaton and a broad range of quality of life issues including depression and anxiety and sense of well being. Acupuncture treatment for cancer patients and cancer survivors is becoming widely accepted at cancer treatment centers worldwide.
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