Get time credits for giving us ideas about natural, alternative, & complementary therapies for a couple friends and family members with cancer.
It is not necessary for you to research these yourself necessarily, although we welcome any details that you know. Just suggesting the name of a therapy may be useful to us.
The coordinator of CSE timebank (Community Sharing Exchange), Pam Halton, has joined our search as one person trying to do a little research, but Pam has very limited time. Please report any therapies you suggest researching to BOTH Pam Halton and to Jerry Quinn.
Natural, alternative, & complementary therapies means anything that is NOT a traditional cancer therapy. (The traditional cancer therapies would include chemo, radiation, and all pharmaceutical medications.)
If you are using traditional therapies, complementary and alternative therapies at the same time can make the body recover quicker from the abuse of the traditional therapies which can be hard on the body's natural systems.
Thanks.
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More details on the specific cancer cases are below if this is useful to you:
Cancer Patient #1) SK, a 60 year old female, is very sensitive to medications of all kinds. Almost all pharmaceutical medications tend to make her more sick. And so the decision has been made for now to not pursue chemotherapy or radiation to treat the cancer.
SK has already switched to a diet of natural and organic foods with a high amount of fruits and vegetables, trying to avoid sugar, chemicals, and trying to watch the amount of carbohydrates eaten compared to proteins and fats.
SK is already working with a naturopath using various herbs, vitamins, minerals, and other supplements.
SK is already working with several Reiki energy practitioners.
SK and PH have already been reading Suzanne Somers' book called Knockout: Interviews With Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer and How to Prevent Getting It In the First Place.
Cancer Patient #2) LH, a 79 year old female, is taking 2 chemo therapies (taxol and carbopentin). She is not yet doing any alternative care other than using an "intention spirometer" occasionally to try to get her lung capacity back, and a couple super easy PT exercises occasionally. LH is not doing well. She has high levels of pain, nausea, and is having her hair fall out. Her digestion, GI tract motility and function are not working properly. Ironically, the chemo has helped her high blood pressure which no longer seems to need blood pressure medications on most days. The chemo also helped there to be less fluid flooding into the abdomen and pleural cavity, which is how one of her lungs got collapsed in the first place. She now has 1.5 lungs worth of capacity instead of 2. She is trying to minimize her sugar intake. LH was diagnosed in late April 2018 with stage 4 ovarian cancer of the type serous carcinoma. A surgery in late May 2018 removed the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and a lot of the greater and lesser omentum (tissue that supports and connects the intestines with each other and with other organs in the abdomen). During the surgery, it was observed that there were tiny specks of the cancer all over the diaphragm muscle, and large and small intestines.
Cancer Patient #3) is an older woman who has lymphoma and some other type of cancer as well. She has been treated by conventional methods and cancer has continued to come back. She has not done anything with natural, alternative, or complementary healthcare yet.