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Important: A s a complementary health care provider, we work w ith your oncologist(s) to bring
you back to health with integrative care. Though we work to correct underlying aspects of the
body that may relate to cancer, we do not treat cancer itself.
Key P
oints A
bout C
omplementary/ I ntegrative T reatment:
● There are many factors involved in cancer that have been studied by
science, but are mostly overlooked in conventional treatment alone.
● These factors include “Cancer Cell Metabolism” (the way cancer cells make
energy) and the overall health of your “Biological Terrain.” Many of these
mechanisms also relate to “Chemoresistance” and “Radioresistance.”
● Natural Complementary Medicine addresses these overlooked issues in an
“Integrative” Model of Care.
● The chart below illustrates some of the mechanism involved in cancer, and
the relationships between them. When one of these factors is out of
balance, it can also affect another, in a “vicious cycle” that promotes cancer
growth. Because of this, we work to address all of these factors
simultaneously.
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Cancer M
etabolics a nd T he M
etabolic L andscape
The Effect of Conventional Treatments Alone On Tissue Oxygen Uptake
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Some E xamples:
Hypoxia (Low O2)→ Inflammation and Gene Dysregulation
Inflammation → Hypoxia (Low O2)
Hypoxia and inflammation are two sides of the same coin
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/46/18351.full
Hypoxia (Low O2)→ Immune Dysfunction
Hypoxia promotes tumor growth in linking angiogenesis to immune escape
http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2012.00021/abstract
Inflammation→ Treatment Resistance
Inflammation, cancer and chemoresistance: taking advantage of the tolllike receptor signaling pathway.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17217363
Metabolic Waste Accumulation ( Lactic Acid) → Immune Dysregulation
Cancergenerated lactic acid: a regulatory, immunosuppressive metabolite?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757307/
Metabolic Dysregulation→Metabolic Waste Accumulation ( Lactic Acid)
Metabolic Waste Accumulation ( Lactic Acid) → Treatment Resistance
Hypoxia (Low O2) → Treatment Resistance
Why do cancers have high aerobic glycolysis?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15516961
Blood Sugar→ Genomic Dysregulation
Increased sugar uptake promotes oncogenesis via EPAC/RAP1 and OGlcNAc pathways
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871217/
Blood Sugar→ Inflammation
What you eat can fuel or cool inflammation, a key driver of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic
conditions.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/Whatyoueatcanfuelorcoolinflammationakeydriver
ofheartdiseasediabetesandotherchronicconditions.shtml
Immune Dysregulation → I nflammation
Cytokinebased transformation of immune surveillance into tumorpromoting inflammation
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v27/n45/full/onc2008275a.html
Inflammation → I mmune Dysregulation
A cytokinemediated link between innate immunity, inflammation, and cancer.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17476347?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg
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Dynamics O
f C
onventional C
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Aspects o
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These complementary treatment strategies support:
● Your body’s own anticancer abilities.
● Your body against the damage caused by conventional therapies.
● Your oncologist’s treatments, by increasing the effects of conventional
therapies.
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