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Joseph Shaw Jones, MD
Doc, I Don’t Want To Take Chemo
Gentle Wellness Center
. http://www.MyGentleWellness.com

Doc, I Don’t Want To Take Chemo

It is not uncommon to hear a cancer patient’s first words as, “I won’t take any chemotherapy” and arrive seeking anything except what their oncologists have recommended. Having performed a lengthy Google search for “natural miracle cures for cancer” or using similar search terms, they are unwittingly risking a fall into a well of pseudoscience and misleading claims unchallenged by evidence.

You can understand the fear and the accompanying psychological denial of a cancer diagnosis, and the need to get some control over this monster that is stealing their time. If their health professionals aggressively push them with facts over belief, you could end up with an angry patient who goes elsewhere for their possibly dubious treatment.

We know we should take the information from the internet with a grain of salt. But once a patient has read every promising material on some alternative medicine websites, promising exactly what the patient is hoping to find, be it a “natural” cancer cure through herbs, IV therapies, a special diet, or other therapy that requires no medication, it’s practically impossible to undo what for the patient has become an unassailable mind set.

Patients have a right to decide what goes in their bodies, to choose an alternative approach even if the evidence is weaker than the standard of care would demand, as long as the patient is made fully aware of this, has consulted with their conventional oncologist and as long as the patient is not directly harmed.  Many patients enter worthless treatment regimens believing it will work, based on misinformation and misplaced hope.

Alternative therapies, such as vitamin C infusions, infra-red sauna, hyperbaric oxygen, therapeutic massage, acupuncture, supplements, nutrition and lifestyle recommendations, have proven to improve the overall health, immune function and quality of life of patients, but these are still complementary to a more aggressive plan that must include chemotherapeutics when recommended.

An integrative approach to cancer treatment shows great results, using the same FDA approved conventional pharmaceuticals known to be effective that your oncologist would use. In a specific method, termed insulin potentiation therapy (IPT), the patient receives weekly therapy, approximately 20% per week of the conventional dose, along with the complementary therapies above. Most patients can go about their daily activities with far fewer side effects than receiving the full dose at once.

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