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Originally funded by the European Commission (EC) within the Framework 5 Programme, CAM Cancer has been managed by the National Research Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM) since 2007.
NAFKAM coordinates a worldwide network of experts in CAM and/or cancer care for the CAM Cancer Collaboration in order to produce evidence-based information on CAM for cancer thus contributing to safe and evidence-based cancer care.
NAFKAM maintains and develops the website and its content, as part of its programme of summarizing and disseminating the research status of CAM to health professionals. NAFKAM is located at the Department of Community Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Aims
The aims of CAM Cancer are:
- To prepare and disseminate information for health professionals based on the best available evidence. Health professionals can use this to make informed treatment decisions together with their patients. You can access the free database here.
- Maintaining and developing an international authoritative network around CAM in cancer. You can find out more about the CAM Cancer Collaboration here.
The CAM Cancer database
CAM Cancer's core output is the freely accessible database of CAM Cancer summaries published on this website. It can be accessed for free on this website by searching for treatments, symptoms or cancer types.
The CAM Cancer Collaboration
NAFKAM manages the CAM Cancer Collaboration supporting to fulfil the aims of CAM Cancer. The Collaboration is led by the advisory committee, scientific coordinator, editorial team, and a network of official partners. Authors and reviewers are recruited from the Collaboration and beyond. including researchers, clinicians, oncologists, and representatives of national cancer societies.
Funding
CAM-Cancer is entirely nonprofit. It receives no commercial funding or funding from any institution with a conflict of interest. The main funders of CAM-Cancer are currently NAFKAM, as well as the German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO) and Swiss Cancer League/ Swiss Cancer Research:
- NAFKAM is funded directly by the Norwegian government’s Directorate of Health. NAFKAM does not endorse or recommend any treatment/ therapy or any individual/ organisation providing therapy. NAFKAM’s research and information services are entirely non-profit and independent. NAFKAM’s websites do not offer advertisement of any kind.
- The German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO) is an organization of scientists and physicians specializing in the research, diagnosis and treatment of blood diseases and malignant solid tumors.
- The Swiss Cancer League/ Swiss Cancer Research is a national charitable organisation fighting against cancer and supporting patients and their relatives.
Advisory Committee
- Miek Jong PhD
Chair of the Advisory Committee and Director of NAFKAM - Thomas Cerny MD
Head of Oncology and Hematology Department, Kantonsspital St.Gallen; President Cancer Research Switzerland; President Oncosuisse, Switzerland (Swiss Cancer League) - Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMEdSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, UK - Vinjar Fonnebo MD, MSc Epidemiology, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway - Markus Horneber MD
Senior Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany
Editorial team
Scientific Co-ordinator and Senior Editor
Barbara Wider MA MA
NAFKAM, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Technical Editor
Ola Lillenes BA
Head of Communications, NAFKAM and Chief Editor of Norway's national information service for complementary and alternative medicine
Responsible Editors
- Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMEdSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, UK - Moshe Frenkel MD
Chair of The Israeli Society of Complementary Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA; Director of Integrative Oncology Service, Institute of Oncology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel - Markus Horneber MD
Senior Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Karen Pilkington BPharm, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FHEA
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Pharmacology Editors
- Christoph Ritter PhD
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany - Janine Ziemann Dipl. Pharmacist
Research Fellow, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany
Support staff
- Leala Watson – literature searches
- Tine Lillegård Bergli - information specialist, NAFKAM
- Annikken Cecilie Pettersen - information specialist, NAFKAM
Official partners
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Anticancer Fund, Belgium
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Competence Centre for Complementary Medicine and Naturopathy, Germany
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Competence Network for Complementary Medicine in Oncology (KOKON), Germany
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Institute of Complementary Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland
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Supportive and Rehabilitation Oncology (ASORS) - German Cancer Society
Authors and reviewers
The following people have acted as authors on the CAM Cancer project:
- Katja Boehm PhD MSc Health Psychology
Research Fellow, University of Witten/Herdecke, Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative Medicine and Anthroposophy, Germany - Joke Bradt PhD, MT-BC
Associate Professor, Department of Creative Arts Therapies, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. - Italo M Cesari PhD
Emeritus Professor, Cancer Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Institute of Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Ellen Conte ND
Clinician Scientist, Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre, Ottawa ON, Canada - Helen Cooke MA, BSc
Integrative Health Advisor, Freelance, UK - Holger Cramer MSc PhD
Associate Professor (Privatdozent) and Research Director of the Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Gabriele Dennert MD, MSc (Public Health)
Professor (Public Health and Social Medicine), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Germany - Liene Dhooghe MSc, PhD
Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMEdSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, UK - Vinjar Fonnebo MD, MSc Epidemiology, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Head of Institute of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway - Luc Geeraert MSc
Scientific writer, Freelance, Belgium - Arne Heyerick PhD
Program Manager Droia, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium - Markus Horneber MD
Senior Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Rachel Jolliffe MSc
Research and Evaluation Officer, Penny Brohn Cancer Care, UK - Alexander Kalisch MD
Consultant Oncologist, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Karl Krumwiede PhD/Dr oec. troph.
Ecotrophologist (household economics, nutrition and food science), Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Xi Lin PhD
Research Assistant, Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China - Jianping Liu PhD
Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Beijing, China - Ava Lorenc PhD
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, UK - Ann-Christine Moenaert MSc
Project Manager, Anticancer Fund, Brussels, Belgium - Thomas Ostermann PhD
Professor of Research Methods and Information Systems in Complementary Medicine, Faculty of Health, Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophical Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany - Karen Pilkington BPharm, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FHEA
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK - Pawel Posadzki PhD
Freelance Systematic Reviewer, York, UK - Peter Renner MD
Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Klara Rombauts MSc
Project Manager, Anticancer Fund, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium - Helen Seers PhD
Research Fellow, Penny Brohn Cancer Care, UK - Michaela Sieh MD
Reliable Cancer Therapies, Belgium - Sarah Vadeboncoeur ND, BSc
Naturopathic Doctor, Ottawa Integrative Health Centre, Canada - Mirjam Wüsthof MD
University Cancer Centre, Hamburg, Germany
The following people have acted as reviewers on the CAM Cancer project.
- Arends, Jann (Germany)
- Awang, Dennis (Canada)
- Balneaves, Lynda (Canada)
- Baum, Michael (UK)
- Benton, Deborah (USA)
- Biesalski, Hans (Germany)
- Boehm, Katja (Germany)
- Boon, Heather (Canada)
- Braun, Lesley (Australia)
- Brignall, Matt (USA)
- Cerny, Thomas (Switzerland)
- Christensen, Søren Brøgger (Denmark)
- Cooke, Helen (UK)
- Conte, Ellen (Canada)
- van Dam, Frits (The Netherlands)
- Dennert, Gabriele (Germany)
- Dhooghe, Liene (Belgium)
- Elkins, Gary (USA)
- Ernst, Edzard (UK)
- Fønnebø, Vinjar (Norway)
- Green, Julia (UK)
- Horneber, Markus (Germany)
- Huber, Roman (Germany)
- Hübner, Jutta (Germany)
- Huntley, Alyson (UK)
- Jacobson, Judith (USA)
- Johannessen, Helle (Denmark)
- Jolliffe, Rachel (UK)
- Jungi, Felix (Switzerland)
- Kaemmerer, Ulrike (Germany)
- Kraft, Karin (Germany)
- Lampe, Hans (Germany)
- Langhorst, Jost (Germany)
- Lejeune, Stephane (Belgium)
- Liu, Jianping (China)
- Manuel-y-Keenoy, Begoña (Belgium)
- Marinakis, Christiana (Denmark)
- Meheus, Lydie (Belgium)
- Mukhtar, Hasan (USA)
- Musial, Frauke (Norway)
- Newman, Robert (USA)
- Olsen, Anja (Denmark)
- Oneschuk, Doreen (USA)
- Paludan-Müller, Christine (Denmark)
- Philipp, Thomas (Germany)
- Pilkington, Karen (UK)
- Posadzki, Pawel, York, UK
- Rombauts, Klara (Belgium)
- Rossion, Inga (Germany)
- Rostock, Matthias (Switzerland)
- Scraub, Simon (France)
- Seely, Dugald (Canada)
- Seers, Helen (UK)
- Stacpoole, Peter (USA)
- Stapf, Adele (Germany)
- Stevinson, Clare (UK)
- Templeton, Arnoud (Switzerland)
- Tjoenneland, Anne (Denmark)
- Ulrich-Merzenich, Gudrun (Germany)
- Wardell, Diane (USA)
- Weitzman, Sheila (Canada)
