Naturopathic Medicine in Cancer 

Naturopathic oncology (cancer care) is all about meeting the person where they are to help facilitate the best outcomes. It is an individualized, root cause approach to supporting individuals while they are fighting and recovering from cancer. It is safe alongside conventional treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

“During active cancer, one role of naturopathic medicine is supportive”, says Dr. Esau, “meaning that we do everything we can to make the body strong enough to get through chemotherapy and radiation. For example, some chemotherapeutics tank blood cells, so then we want to be sure to use herbs that can help stimulate the white blood cell production and then hopefully the next chemotherapy isn’t canceled due to low counts.”

She goes on to add, “Naturopathic medicine may support quality of life both and help reduce side effects of conventional treatments both while undergoing treatment as well as in terminal cases. In remission there is a lot of work to still do to make your body as anti-cancer as possible. We work with our patients in remission to optimize their health and remove the barriers to health and work on the modifiable factors that contributed to cancer in the first place”.

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Article provided by Dr. Erin Esau, BA, Naturopathic Doctor