Integrative Approach
Cancer is a disease of the whole person, not just one body part, and yet most conventional oncologists treat cancer as a separate entity or as a specific problem in the body. Their aim is to kill the cancer cells and remove the tumor from the body rather than heal the body from within and understand the environment and condition of patient for what set the stage for the cancer to develop in the first place. If the tumor is just removed but the environment stays the same, the cancer is sure to develop again. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) or cancer stem cells (CSCs) are cells that break off from the original tumor and float around in the bloodstream looking for their next “nest” to settle in and are responsible for 95% of all metastases and cancer deaths.2 Scientists have not figured out how to eliminate them through chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. Instead of building up the immune system to help the body heal on its own and fight the cancer, conventional treatments tear it down and can sometimes create new health problems for the person due to immune suppression.
If we re-frame our mind to look at the whole person and the environment for what caused the cancer to develop in the first place, then that’s where all these other factors such as stress, diet, environment, the mind, the spirit, and all other aspects of the patient come into play. The body is an intelligent organism with a magnificent biochemistry and has a self-healing capacity. And it’s possible that cancer is one way our body’s way of letting us know that something is off-balance or maybe the cancer itself is a healing mechanism for warding off an outside invader, or for holding an emotional trauma.
Whatever the case may be, we need to re-frame our mindset as medical doctors and scientists, and help to revolutionize the thinking pattern of our patients if we truly want to treat the origin of the illness or the cause of the cancer.
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