CancerChoices was co-founded by Michael Lerner, author of Choices in Healing. CancerChoices is a guide to integrative cancer care, with balanced views of conventional, self, and complementary cancer care. Available evidence on complementary cancer therapies are curated, along with inspiring stories of healing from those who have walked this path.

CancerChoices provides extensive reviews of complementary therapies that may be used in addition to conventional therapies such as chemotherapy or surgery. The team rate the strength of the evidence supporting the use of a therapy for a medical benefit, such as improving treatment outcomes or managing side effects.

CancerChoices recommends “7 Healing Practices” as core for your cancer self-care. They are widely endorsed at major cancer centers as central to their integrative care programs.

Eating Well
Moving More
Sharing Love and Support
Exploring What Matters Now
Managing Stress
Creating a Healing Environment
Sleeping Well

Each of these are explained in great detail on the CancerChoices website.

Michael Lerner and Rachel Naomi Remen, founded of the Commonweal with a vision of healing ourselves and healing the earth, understood that each of us has the capacity for “intentional healing” at physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.

CancerChoices is one of over 25 programmes offered by the Commonweal organisation. Other programmes include:

Cancer Help Program
Center for Healing and Liberation
Collaborative for Health & Environment
Commonweal Retreat Center
Healing Circles Global
Omega Resilience Awards
OMEGA
Power of Hope
Partners for Youth Empowerment
Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine
The Resilience Project
Visual Thinking Strategies
GoCompassion
The New School
Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center
California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice
Center for Ethical Land Transition
The American Public Trust
Healing Circles Houston
Humane Prison Hospice Project
Healing Circles Langley
Healing Circles Healthcare
Commonweal History Project
Integrative Law Institute
Kids and Caregivers
Octavia Fund
Platform Impact Leaders Fellowship
Somos El Poder
Retreat Center Collaboration
Taproot Gathering
West Marin Climate Action
Regenerative Design Institute
Center for Dying and Living
Courage & Renewal Network of Northern California
project SOUL
Healing Yoga Foundation
Foundation for Embodied Medicine
Juvenile Justice Program
Movement Liberation Fund
SafetyNEST Science
West Marin Review
Kinship Blooms