There is a new breed of clinicians practicing Integrative Cancer Care who are skilled in promoting and supporting the restoration of health and well being to cancer patients and cancer survivors. An “Integrative” approach to cancer is emerging. This includes not only the focus on the disease but also highly individualized care that supports healthy function. Integrative Cancer Care is a team approach combining the best of conventional medical treatments with alternative and complementary treatments. This combines a disease model with a health model. Currently oncologists (cancer specialists) do not assist their patients in returning to health. Oncologists are disease specialists not health specialists.
In search of “health” oriented care, cancer patients commonly use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) along with their conventional cancer treatments. According to the US National Institute of Health 2010 Annual Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
About 40 percent of cancer survivors reported using CAM….According to the 2007 NHIS, more than one-third of adults (about 38 percent) had used some form of CAM. Cancer patients seek guidance on diet and nutrition, botanical and nutritional medicine, acupuncture, stress management and meditation. (1)
Faculty include the who’s who of Integrative Cancer Care, doctors with years of experience and knowledge. Many of the experts and leaders in the field of Integrative Cancer Care will be gathering in April near New York City to attend the Advances in Cancer Strategies Symposium. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Bernie Siegel MD. well known for his leading edge thinking and his book Love, Medicine and Miracles. This faculty is the who’s who of the Integrative and Alternative Cancer Treatment world : Physicians Mardy Hardy M.D., Don Abrams, MD, Dwight Mckee MD as well as researchers such as the esteemed Bharat Aggarwal, Ph.D. Experts in botanical medicine and cancer include Donald Yance, CHN, John Boik, Ph.D, author of Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy., Jason Miller, L.Ac., and Jonathan Treasure, MNIMH.
The Symposium is sponsored by the Healthy Medicine Academy founded by Dr. Robert Zieve, MD, featured in the book, Defeat Cancer and Eve Greenberg, M.A.C.N. The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Mederi Foundation founded by Donald Yance, author of Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer. The Mederi Foundation is devoted to supporting a comprehensive approach to the care of patients with life-threatening diseases such as cancer and to transforming models of healthcare into a collaborative and integrative system.
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(1) National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Cancer and CAM: At a Glance
