The Society for Integrative Oncology (abbreviated SIO) is a multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to studying how to apply evidence-based

integrative medicine Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alte ...

to the treatment of cancer. It was established in 2003 and is a

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. The founding president of the SIO was

Barrie Cassileth Barrie Joyce Rabinowitz Cassileth (née Rabinowitz; April 22, 1938 – February 26, 2022) was an American medical sociologist and researcher of complementary medicine and a critic of alternative medicine. She published extensively on alternativ ...

, and in October 2013, Heather Greenlee of

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was named president. Since the SIO's November 2015 meeting, its president has been Jun Mao of the

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. Each fall, beginning in 2004, the SIO has held an international conference. From 2003 to 2010, the SIO published a peer-reviewed journal: from 2003 to 2005, it was entitled the ''Journal of Cancer Integrative Medicine'', after which it was renamed the ''Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology''.

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