Advancing the Evidence Base and Transforming Cancer Care Through Interprofessional Collegiality: The Society for Integrative Oncology

The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) is pleased to sup-port this seminal issue of JNCI Monographs devoted to integrative oncology and cancer survivorship. The SIO is an international professional society whose mission is to advance evidence-based, comprehensive integrative health care to improve the lives of peo-ple affected by cancer (www.integrativeonc.org). Since its found-ing in 2003 by pioneers in the field—Drs Barrie Cassileth, David Rosenthal, and Lorenzo Cohen—SIO has consistently encouraged rigorous scientific evaluation of both pre-clinical and clinical sci-ence, while advocating for the transformation of oncology care to integrate evidence-based complementary approaches. The vision of SIO is to have research inform the true integration of complemen-tary modalities into oncology care, so that evidence-based comple-mentary care is accessible and part of standard cancer care for all patients across the cancer continuum