Body & Soul with Gail Harris

Lenny's Story: Cancer and the Quality of Life
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For more information about the Big Dig and the Leonard P. Zakim Freedom Bridge, go to:
http://www.bigdig.com or http://www.state.ma.gov

For more information on The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies, go to: http://dana-farber.net

For more information about the Anti-Defamation League, go to: http://www.adl.org

For more information on Team Harmony, a charity organization co-created by Lenny Zakim, which brings many of Boston's best-known athletes into the schools in Massachusetts to speak with young people, go to: http://www.teamharmony.org

For more information on the Lenny Fund, which makes grants to small social-service and community organizations, go to: http://www.tpi.org

Beth Israel Medical Center

The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is located at:

330 Brookline Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
+1 (617) 667 7000

More information on Beth Israel's Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education is available on the Web at www.bidmc.harvard.edu/medicine/camr and provides a number of helpful information sources.
Commonweal
To learn more about the Commonweal Cancer Help Program go to www.commonwealhealth.org or call or write the organization at the following address:

Commonweal
P.O. Box 316
Bolinas, CA 94924
+1 (415) 868 0970

There are any number or resources to learn more about the treatment of cancer. Many are available on the Web.

For mainstream treatment information go to the Website of the National Cancer Institute at http://rex.nci.nih.gov.

Oncolink at the University of Pennsylvania provides one of the more comprehensive sites on the Web for cancer and related subjects. Oncolink can be found at http://oncolink.upenn.edu:80/

For information on alternative therapies and complementary medicine go to the National Institute of Health site at http://nccam.nih.gov.

Among the 11 Specialty Research Centers that are funded by the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is the Center for Alternative Medicine Research at the University of Texas. The address of the Website there is www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam/.

Cancer patients looking to talk with other cancer patients can do so at OncoChat. The address there is http://ng.netgate.net/~mwmiller/oncoinfi.html.

Other Reading
In addition to Michael Lerner's Choices in Healing, there is Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies (Perseus Press, 1996) by Dr. James S. Gordon. Dr. Gordon has been a leading advisor to the NIH's Office of Alternative Medicine and in his book he discusses how to combine the best of orthodox and alternative medicine.
Program Description
Lenny Zakim
David Eisenberg, MD
Ken Anderson, MD
Michael Lerner, PhD
Peter Churchill, LMT
Help YourSelf
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