Dr Pieter DeWet Live

Integrative Cancer Therapies 1st show: On this show me and Oncology Nurse Stacye discuss the weaknesses in the strictly conventional approaches to treating cancer. The pitfalls, side effects, escalating costs and physical and emotional toll it takes. Then we go into the general concepts of treating cancer with integrative strategies that are based on the idea of supporting the patients physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social and financial well being as they go through conventional therapies. We touch on some modalities that are now being used at some conventional cancer care facilities around the U.S., even at the biggest cancer care facility in this country, M.D. Anderson Cancer Care Center and what has been discovered there over the last 10 years since they started offering integrative care to some of their patients. We also discuss more specifically the causes of the ever worsening epidemic of cancer in spite of the war against cancer declared by president Richard Nixon in 1973 and the tremendous co