Options include: 1) Broadening the information base on use of unconventional treatments by studying the people who use them and the extent to which they are used; 2) Government gathering and making available information on unconventional treatments and practitioners; 3) Improving information on the efficacy and safety of unconventional treatments by mandating the National Cancer Institute to examine and facilitate other's examination of treatments, facilitating "best case series" of unconventionally treated patients, funding evaluations of such treatments, creating a reporting system for remissions after unconventional treatment, and creating a reporting system for adverse event reporting after unconventional treatment; and 4) Making available information on legal sanctions against practitioners and health fraud related to unconventional treatments.
Other output or dissemination activity: The report was one impetus to starting the Office of Alternative Medicine at NIH, and was the basis for NCI providing explicit guidance for studies to unconventional practitioners.