To celebrate the first anniversary of the website, Reliable Cancer Therapies (RCT) launches new guides for patients with general information in the hope of offering cancer patients, as well as their relatives, some answers to a wide range of questions and problems concerning treatment types, changes to lifestyle habits, the relationship with the oncologist, and many other concerns which cancer patients have to deal with.

Moreover, all of these guides are easy to download and print.

For more information, read the entire press release here:

RCT offers general guides for cancer patients

Verbier - Reliable Cancer Therapies (RCT) celebrates the first anniversary of its website in style. The Swiss non-for-profit organization has completed comprehensive guides for cancer patients and their relatives, which are now available on its website, www.reliablecancertherapies.com/guides/general.

“When you’re diagnosed with cancer, your world falls apart”, says Lydie Meheus, Executive Director of RCT. “Therefore, we wanted to offer these patients clear guides that can help them to better understand what they are going through and guide them along this difficult journey. Clear and reliable information is crucial in relieving anxiety and panic, which are common feelings amongst cancer patients and their relatives.”

Given that most cancer patients deal with the same issues and have the same questions, RCT now offers two new guides with general information next to the existing ones per cancer type to address these common concerns. These concerns may include the following topics: questions to ask your oncologist, the pros and cons of participating in clinical research, looking after quality of life, information retrieval, second opinions, etc. There are currently two general guides available: one for patients who are just diagnosed with cancer, and another one for patients with advanced cancer.

Other new general guides are available on the following topics:
• Non-conventional therapies
• Conventional therapies
• Integrative cancer care
• Nutrition & physical activity
• Energy-based therapies
• Supplements
• Mind-Body Medicine

“Based on our experience in dealing with patient questions, we realized that there is an unmet need for guidance in the jungle of cancer information”, explains Meheus. “Having this information available in the mother tongue is a must.”
The guides are evidence-based, written in a clear, comprehensible language, and provide definitions and explanations.

Website makeover
The guides can be downloaded from the RCT website, which has expanded considerably since its launch in November 2010. It is also certified with the HONcode label since September 2011. The Health on the Net Foundation (HON) acknowledges through this label that the health information provided on www.reliablecancertherapies.com is scientifically correct, reliable and used efficiently. By means of verifying the quality, objectivity and transparency of the medical information available on the Worldwide Web, the organization can help people distinguish between reliable and unreliable information.

“Having the ethical HONcode label on our website means a lot to us”, acknowledges Luc Verelst, founder and chairman of RCT. “People can be sure that the information has been thoroughly evaluated and has been deemed reliable and accurate. This was what we wanted to offer in the first place: reliable information on cancer types and therapies.”

About RCT
RCT investigates the information on cancer therapies for evidence, so that evidence-based treatment choices can be made. RTC helps patients to structure and absorb the complex nature of information on registered, complementary or alternative therapies.
The RCT team is independent and open-minded, supported by a high level advisory board, collaborates with international organizations (ESMO, CAM-CANCER), and consults reliable sources (NCI, MSKcc, Natural Standard, a.o.).

RCT is constantly looking for cancer therapies that – based on measurable results – seem successful, but have never been investigated thoroughly. If in the course of these investigations promising new cancer treatments are identified, the development of such therapies can be funded.
The RCT website provides research-based information for both patients and their relatives, and professionals so that it can be used to discuss treatment options.

Contact Information:

Reliable Cancer Therapies

Head office Switzerland:
1936 Verbier - Switzerland

Representative office Belgium:
Boechoutlaan 221
1853 Strombeek-Bever - Belgium

info@reliablecancertherapies [dot] com
www.reliablecancertherapies.com