Alternative Cancer Treatment

Alternative medicine is fast becoming an accepted treatment for many individuals with cancer. Even though these therapies are not accepted as part of conventional medicine, most individuals use them because they are dissatisfied with the costs and results of current day modern medicine.

A wide range of alternative cancer treatments have been offered over the last century. The appeal of alternative cures arises from the daunting risks, costs or potential side effects of many conventional treatments, or in the limited prospect for a cure. Estimates of success rates with alternative therapies vary widely. What works for one patient or type of cancer may fail with another patient having the same or a different malignancy.

Alternative therapies include nutritional, herbal, metabolic, immune-enhancing, biologic, nontoxic pharmacologic and psychological-behavioral approaches. While the alternative therapies exhibit great variation, all of them are rooted in the idea that a truly healthy body will not develop cancer.

Alternative practitioners believe the cause of cancer is often found in a disorder of the immune system or a bodily imbalance that allows the tumor to develop.