Alternative Medicines for Cancer Treatment

When people are diagnosed with cancer they often seek alternative cancer treatment rather than the traditional treatment advised by the doctor. Or in many cases they will have both traditional treatment such as surgery and chemotherapy as well as some kind of natural cancer treatment. While it is wise to follow the doctors’ regimen of treatment, taking herbal supplements or other treatments determined by the sufferer gives them a feeling of power and hope that is just as necessary for survival as the treatment itself.

The most important thing to do when cancer of any kind has been diagnosed is to seek early cancer treatment because cancer can spread so quickly and attack other areas of the body. The sooner treatment starts the better off the cancer patient will be. Statistics show that early treatment of cancer increases the patients’ survival rates dramatically. So what are some of these alternative cancer treatments?

• Herbal therapies such as Essiac tea, chaparral, Pau D’Arco, mistletoe and other herbal supplements.

• Immune Therapies such as IAT or Issels whole body therapy.

• Nutritional therapies such as wheatgrass, macrobiotics and various diets.

• Metabolic therapies such as Gerson or Hans Nieper MD.

• Adjunctive therapies include ozone therapy, hyperthermia, DMSO, chelation and live cell therapy.

• Energy medicine includes bioelectric therapies, homeopathy, Ayurveda and Chinese medicine.

• Biological and pharmacologic therapies such as antineoplastons, Revici therapy and hydrazine sulphate.

Many doctors who favour traditional forms of cancer treatment do not consider alternative medicines to be necessary or even helpful. But such things as extra nutrition in the form of herbal or other medicines can only be helpful in keeping the body strong for the fight against cancer. And in fact, many foods do contain natural elements that are known to fight against disease such as cancer. Cancer patients need all the help they can get to ward off this disease.