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国際個別化医療学会誌
国際個別化医療学会誌
原著
Integrative Oncology for Clinicians and Cancer Patients
Integrative Oncology for Clinicians and Cancer Patients
Michael B Schachter
Director & Owner of Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine
Worldwide medical literature supports the notion that environmental and nutritional factors play a role in the development of cancer. Nutritional recommendations to the public to help prevent cancer are available from the USA’s National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and other organizations. However, when it comes to treating patients who have been diagnosed with cancer, the vast majority of oncologists fail to deal with nutritional and lifestyle factors to help their patients manage their cancers. Evidence continues to mount that some of the same recommendations designed to prevent cancer should also be applied to patients who already have cancer. Implementing such a program of lifestyle modifications, improvement in diet, exercise, stress management, optimal exposure to sunlight, improving energy flow and nutritional supplements should improve cancer patients’ survival statistics and the quality of life of these patients, including significantly reducing the side effects of conventional treatments.
This article focuses on dietary changes and nutritional supplements to help clinicians educate cancer patients, so that they may better deal with their illness. Highlighted are: principles involving an optimal diet, avoidance of harmful chemicals and use of nutritional supplements. Some of the controversies surrounding nutritional supplements are reviewed. Specific topics covered include: a broad range supplement program, vitamin C, amygdalin, iodine, fermented wheat germ extract, mushroom extracts, supplements developed by the late Mirko Beljanski PhD and the antineoplastons of Stanislaw Burzynski.
Finally, there is a discussion about paradigms in health care and the effects of politics and economics on how health care is practiced today.
This article focuses on dietary changes and nutritional supplements to help clinicians educate cancer patients, so that they may better deal with their illness. Highlighted are: principles involving an optimal diet, avoidance of harmful chemicals and use of nutritional supplements. Some of the controversies surrounding nutritional supplements are reviewed. Specific topics covered include: a broad range supplement program, vitamin C, amygdalin, iodine, fermented wheat germ extract, mushroom extracts, supplements developed by the late Mirko Beljanski PhD and the antineoplastons of Stanislaw Burzynski.
Finally, there is a discussion about paradigms in health care and the effects of politics and economics on how health care is practiced today.
■Key words：Integrative Oncology, Integrative Cancer Treatment, Nutritional Supplements for Cancer, Nutrition for Cancer Patients, Complementary Cancer Treatment
■連絡先 2 Executive Boulevard; Suite 202; Suffern, New York 10901; USA
Phone: 845-368-4700 FAX: 845-368-4727 This is an expanded version of a lecture presented at the International Society of Integrative Medicine meeting in Tokyo Japan on July 19, 2009. The lecture was partially supported by Maitake Mushrooms Inc. (In the USA, the company is now called Mushroom Wisdom Inc.)
■連絡先 2 Executive Boulevard; Suite 202; Suffern, New York 10901; USA
Phone: 845-368-4700 FAX: 845-368-4727 This is an expanded version of a lecture presented at the International Society of Integrative Medicine meeting in Tokyo Japan on July 19, 2009. The lecture was partially supported by Maitake Mushrooms Inc. (In the USA, the company is now called Mushroom Wisdom Inc.)
