WELCOME to KNOW
KNOW is a tool that allows access to up-to-date research on natural agents in cancer care. KNOW systematically searches and presents relevant human studies, including clinical trials, from Medline and EMBASE.
In KNOW, data is searchable by tumor type, natural therapy, conventional treatment, and side effects. You can copy references into professional communications, academic projects or presentations, education materials, curriculum, and websites. KNOW provides convenient links to the publisher for full text review or access.
Membership to KNOW is subscription-based, providing access for individuals, cancer care teams, research groups, academic project groups, hospitals, and public education organizations.
Key Benefits of KNOW
- • Efficient access to current best evidence
- • Improves clinical outcomes
- • Supports development of educational resources
- • Comprehensive and cost-effective
- • Answers questions about natural therapies in cancer care
Top 50 Systematic Reviews
Notable Studies
The Effect of Diet on Breast Cancer Recurrence: The DIANA-5 Randomized Trial
A randomized trial of pharmacological ascorbate, gemcitabine, and nab-paclitaxel for metastatic pancreatic cancer
The Effect of Melatonin on Increasing the Health Related Quality of Life in Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients: Three-Year Follow up a Clinical Trial
How KNOW supports you:
✔ Improved efficiency - Enormous energy is spent to distill current literature.
✔ Stay up-to-date - The volume of research in integrative oncology is ever increasing and it's nearly impossible to stay abreast. Our team keeps the website current with summaries of published studies that the average clinician cannot easily acquire.
✔ Knowledge sharing with providers - KNOW references can be pasted into letters, handouts, presentations, and websites..
✔ Evidence-informed practice - Informed decisions require access to relevant research.
✔ Knowledge base for teaching - A central repository of information supports curriculum for integrative residencies, fellowships, and other training programs.
✔ Collaboration for research and publication projects
✔ Growing competency and safety - Articles in KNOW provide important information about safety, tolerability, preparation, dosing, and side effects not readily available to clinicians
✔ Stay up-to-date - The volume of research in integrative oncology is ever increasing and it's nearly impossible to stay abreast. Our team keeps the website current with summaries of published studies that the average clinician cannot easily acquire.
✔ Knowledge sharing with providers - KNOW references can be pasted into letters, handouts, presentations, and websites..
✔ Evidence-informed practice - Informed decisions require access to relevant research.
✔ Knowledge base for teaching - A central repository of information supports curriculum for integrative residencies, fellowships, and other training programs.
✔ Collaboration for research and publication projects
✔ Growing competency and safety - Articles in KNOW provide important information about safety, tolerability, preparation, dosing, and side effects not readily available to clinicians
Applications of KNOW:
- Cancer hospitals can deliver info and updates on evidence at point of care for best safety and efficacy (e.g. A survey of multidisciplinary healthcare providers utilizing the KNOWintegrativeoncology.org educational platform - PubMed (nih.gov))
- Integrative medicine providers can improve interprofessional communications by sharing links or full summaries from KNOW
- Advocacy groups can efficiently update public education materials with the latest research. Search topics by year to narrow results to the most current studies eg.
- Faculty and teaching teams can use KNOW as a knowledge base for trainings and to support curriculum development
- Academic groups can conduct mini reviews and guidelines
KNOW's Methods:
KNOW is updated quarterly, providing current, detailed, and accessible online access to published human research on natural health products and nutrients in oncology care.
- The KNOW team systematically searches, screens, and summarizes worldwide human studies and allows the data to be searchable by details such as tumor type, natural therapy, conventional treatment, and side effects. For randomized controlled trials (RCTs), KNOW also provides a Cochrane Risk of Bias analysis.
- Our clinicians, researchers, and medical librarians efficiently distill data from human studies in integrative oncology so that KNOW users can review key details of studies, export citations, and link to the publisher to access open access or full text articles.