Building an Integrated Cancer Treament programme - the best of the best
Welcome. You have reached the UK´s most comprehensive information centre on cancer treatment.
At CANCERactive we don´t just tell you about orthodox cancer treatments like cancer drugs, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.
We also give you comprehensive information on complementary therapies, from acupunture to hands-on-healing, and from a healthy cancer diet to the best vitamin and natural health supplements. We´ll tell you about the clinical trials on diet therapies, beneficial bacteria and meditation; and the research on how ginger helps beat chemo-induced nausea, and carotenoids help with breast cancer!
And we also cover the alternative cancer treatments - the latest and the ones that are used successfully in other countries. That´s why we told prostate patients about HiFU 6 years before it was called a ´breakthrough´ in the UK Media and mentioned on other UK cancer sites. When it comes to cancer, we think you need to know your alternatives!
We want to empower you - to give you ALL the latest information so that you can increase your personal odds of beating cancer. Information on cancer treatments your doctor might give you plus information on complementary cancer therapies and ways in which you can help yourself. Whatever cancer therapy you are looking for, we feel confident you will find it on this web site.
But then, of all the major UK cancer charities, we alone believe that you really can increase your personal odds of beating cancer by building yourself an ´Integrative Cancer Treatment Programme´ (often in the UK called an Integrated Programme!), using the best of the best of all these treatments, tailored to your personal circumstances. And so we have developed our unique ACTIVE8 Programme to help you plan your own individual route forward.
We simply want you to cease being an ´average´ patient and, instead, to increase your personal odds of beating cancer well above the norm.
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Starting to build your cancer treatment programme
You might start by reading the 4 Pillars of Cancer so you can understand the broad strokes of what can cause cancer and take some action to cut various risky things out of your life.
You may want to try a few complementary therapies, or to change your diet. You may even want build yourself a full Complementary programme around your Doctor?s prescribed treatment. But where do you start? Try the page entitled "Building an integrated treatment programme -Your first 15 steps". It is supported by an easy-to-read book.
We try to help people build their own Personal Prescriptions - you can build your own with our unique ACTIVE8 PROGRAMME.
Information with no vested interests - information you can trust
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Orthodox medicine tends to focus on surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, although from time to time, depending upon your country and hospital, you may even be prescribed supplements like vitamin D or Astragalus. You may also be encouraged to have acupuncture or recommended to use Ultrasound instead of surgery. You will find everything here from the latest information on over 70 cancer drugs, to advances in radiotherapy!
Occasionally, some Doctors´ explanations can be a little ´complicated´ at times - patients call it ´Doctorspeak´ so we have even included a ´kiddies guide´ to what it all means. In fact this whole section tries to make each area of orthodox medicine easy to understand. There are plenty of other charities you can turn to for more detailed - and often more complicated - information.
To help you look for ways you can start to help yourself we have the UK?s most comprehensive knowledge bank on Complementary and Alternative therapies. We see ourselves as the UK experts in this field.
This section includes complementary therapies, many with clinical trial research evidence, that patients find really helpful - like Tai Chi, meditation, acupuncture, hands on healing, lymphatic drainage; it includes dietary advice and supplements for people on chemotherapy.
It also includes what Doctors call ´Alternative´ Therapies. Here the truth is that the lines are blurring. Is a diet therapy like the Gerson Therapy an Alternative (some people refuse to have Chemotherapy and only use the Gerson Diet Therapy) or is it Complementary because others use it simultaneously with orthodox medicine?
Then, what used to be thought of as quackery is often now well researched - Dr Gonzalez in New York, and Professor Ben Pfeifer in Switzerland have clinical trials on their diet therapies. A treatment like Ablatherm (using heat to kill cancer cells) or Photo-dynamic Therapy was alternative 10 years ago - now there are Hospitals throughout the world - and yes, even in the UK - using these treatments.
Patients ask us about all sorts of things they have heard of, like graviola, or zeolite or Metabolic B-17 Therapy.
The fact is that none of these is a cancer cure - but then nor is Herceptin or Tamoxifen. Some things work for some people on their individual cancer.
What you need is someone to tell you the truth - a charity without vested interests. A charity that doesn´t take vast sums of money from corporations that fund its very existence, and leave you wondering if you can fully trust its information.
How many Apricot Kernals is too many? What research does exist? Which cancers do the experts who use B-17 say never respond to B-17? What supplements and treatments make it more effective? You will find it all objectively presented here, with the research if it exists. And if it doesn?t we?ll tell you that too!
And you can read the theories of Royal Rife that there is a virus at the heart of every cancer. He was pilloried 70 years ago for his views. Now drugs companies are making vaccines! Yesterday´s alternative really can be tomorrow´s mainstream!
And we´ll even tell you how to visit John of God in Brazil. He has helped a great many people - and he is free! Sometimes you just have to believe.
Making More Informed, Personal Decisions
It is not our job to give advice. We provide information - all the information, so you can make more informed choices, better choices, about your own health and well-being. We do our research thoroughly, we have orthodox and complementary experts helping and writing and that is why you will find more on this website than on others. We will not just ?dismiss? an alternative therapy. We will report accurately on what we find, warts and all. You have a right to know.
Recent research showed that people with cancer like to use the web because it empowers them and puts them back in charge of their cancer. This ?treatment? section aims to do just that.
You?ll also find reports on help centres, other charities in the UK, even treatment centres in other parts of the world. You?ll also find some information on Support Groups. (If you are part of one, please let us know and we could put it on this site).
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