Home Health Matters Discussion Healthy Habits Discussion San Francisco-based health writer Michael Castleman is the author of 10 consumer health books that have sold a combined total of more than 2 million copies. Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, offers weeklong residential retreats for people with cancer in a beautiful, bucolic, Pacific coast setting. Everyone who attends must be under the care of an oncologist.
Conventional oncology has a great deal to offer.
Every cancer patient should work with an oncologist. He feels so strongly about this that no one is admitted to his Cancer Help Program unless they are under an oncologist's care. But this doesn't mean that American oncology is the only conventional way to go. The nation's leading physicians insist that Americans enjoy the best health care in the world. The best care that American oncologists have to offer may not be viewed as best by their colleagues in other countries.