Cancer Support Association

Cancer treatment options and decisions

Cancer Support Online is an independent website dedicated to providing information resources, support services and learning opportunities for healing and for the prevention of lifestyle diseases, and helping individuals make informed decisions about wellness and health so they gain a greater sense of control over their lives. CSA is not government or industry funded, so we are able to give you well-researched, unbiased information on your cancer treatment options.

After the initial shock of a cancer diagnosis, there are some serious decisions to be made by the cancer patient. It is crucial that you take some time to make informed decisions about the best course of action to take and not feel pressured to accept treatments offered by your oncologist at face value. There are many other cancer treatment options outside oncology, and you have the right to investigate and pursue alternative and complementary therapies.

In order to make informed decisions about mainstream, complementary and alternative treatment options you need unbiased information from reliable sources. Whatever choices you make now will later impact on quality of life, family members and general health and wellbeing.

Cancer Support Online is Australia's premier interactive cancer information website built by a team of caring professionals to give you the online support you need to make your choices. The 'Cancer Profilers' pages feature a number of tools to help the cancer patient make important decisions regarding cancer treatment and also to make lifestyle choices which promote wellness and healing.

To go to the following pages on our site you will need to become a FREE online subscriber and SIGN-IN. This will only take you a few minutes and gives you full access to our site, as well as free subscription to Wellness News Online, a monthly email newsletter.

Wellness Questionnaire: A Lifestyle Decision Support Tool
The Wellness Questionnaire is a unique and comprehensive online questionnaire called 'The Analyst' developed by US company Diagnose-Me. The results of this questionnaire may be invaluable in helping make the necessary life changes to minimise the effect/and hopefully prevent the onset of serious life-threatening diseases such as cancer.

Cancer Profilers
Cancer Support Online also hosts four cancer profilers which are incredibly valuable FREE interactive treatment decision support tools. These include a Cancer Profiler, Heart Profiler, Lung Profiler and Women's Health Profiler. Click on the profiler most relevant to you, then fill in a comprehensive questionnaire online, and receive a personalised report on your treatment options, both mainstream and alternative. It may take 30-40 minutes to complete the questionnaire, but this is time well spent when you consider the free report you receive contains the pros and cons of each treatment, side-effects, relevant questions to ask your physician, and summaries of clinical studies.

Cancer Information Gateway
When looking for cancer information, navigating the web can be daunting. As an initial guide, Cancer Support Online has compiled a list of links to various websites containing relevant cancer, health and wellness information. These links are divided into: Mainstream; Complementary & Alternative; Personal; Miscellaneous; Products.

Wellness publications
Cancer Support Online gives you easy-to-access reputable cancer information and resources including: research papers and searchable articles; the high quality monthly cancer wellness e-magazine Wellness News which you can access online for $50 per year or for free if you are a paid CSA member. The magazine contains a broad selection of articles featuring various treatment pathways, their pros and cons, and relevant information.

Also featured on Cancer Support Online is an online library and borrowing facility; live online counselling and chatrooms; and a one-stop Wellness Shop for supplements, lifestyle and cancer wellness products.

Wellness magazine recommended articles

'Australian Oncologists Criticise Chemotherapy' by Ralph W. Moss PhD.
Eminent cancer researcher Ralph W. Moss Ph.D. presents an overview of the results of a meta-analysis, entitled "The Contribution of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year survival in Adult Malignancies" which sets out to accurately quantify and assess the actual benefit of chemotherapy [from Wellness News Online, April 2006]. Click here for article

'Why Cancer Comes Back following Chemotherapy, Radiation & Surgery' by Mike Adams
Cancer researcher Mike Adams has found cancer comes back because conventional cancer treatments only treat the symptoms of cancer (tumours or growths) and do not actually help the patient regain a level of health necessary to keep cancer in check [from Wellness News Online, September 2007]. Click here for article

'The Efficacy of Surgical Treatment - revisited' by Don Benjamin
Don Benjamin reviews a recent meta-analysis on the efficacy of the surgical treatment of cancer as a means of affecting the cancer process, and finds that surgery for cancer is performed without good scientific evidence proving its efficacy [from Wellness News Online, April 2006]. Click here for article

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