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| too many healthy cells. Unfortunately, attacking cancer cells in this way also brings with it the risk of attacking the entire body. Because most conventional treatments damage healthy cells and tissues while they destroy cancerous cells, they can cause numerous unpleasant or life-disrupting side effects, the worst of which is the growth many years later of additional cancers. |
| Many of these side effects, however, can be successfully treated with proper nutritional intervention. Common problems that are responsive to herbs or nutrition include dry mouth, mouth sores, hemorrhaging, cachexia, nausea, diarrhea, bone marrow suppression, and pain. (See chapter 11.) |
| Can conventional cancer therapies work together with natural medicine? Not only can they work together, but when used appropriately, they actually complement one another and greatly enhance success by increasing cure rates and improving both longevity and quality of life. |
| The majority Of the cancer patients I have worked with are also undergoing some form of conventional cancer treatment. Thus I can say with complete confidence based on my own observations that natural therapies, particularly herbal medicine, can not only greatly improve the effectiveness of conventional therapies while reducing the side effects but can affect the "spirit" of the disease, the underlying causes. The multiple causative factors of cancer development can be addressed by targeted natural medicine because, as described in chapters 4 and 5, nutrients and herbs can inhibit some of the cellular mutations that allowed the cancer to begin in the first place, as well as control many promotional agents involved in cancer growth. Therefore, once conventional therapy has ended, these natural remedies can greatly diminish recurrences. For example, the regenerative and liver-protective effects of a botanical formula that includes turmeric, schizandra, milk thistle, and artichoke leaf can help reduce the toxicity of conventional therapies while allowing the body its best chance of attaining a vital state when such therapies are completed. |
| Surgery |
| Surgery is the oldest and still considered the most effective mainstream treatment choice for solid tumors. It is often curative for localized cancer (particularly small tumors) in which all or nearly all cancerous tissue can be removed. Radical surgery is performed and a tumor is removed along with the nearby |
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