Successful alternative cancer therapies

Pointing out what is on the list that are included to the successful alternative cancer therapies is very hard. There are many things to consider because healing is very individualized and subjective.

Alternative therapies are used instead of medical treatment.

Why do people with cancer use alternative methods?

There are several reasons why people use alternative cancer therapies. Here are some of it:

• Fighting cancer in everything they can
• Fewer side effects as a treatment.
• Controlling how their cancer is treated.
• Prefer alternative treatments.
• Found information online or in other places that sounds helpful.

Identifying successful alternative cancer therapies can be challenging due to varying degrees of scientific validation and individual responses. However, some alternative therapies have shown promise or are actively researched in complementary and integrative oncology:

1. Herbal and Nutritional Therapies: Certain herbs and dietary supplements have been studied for their potential anti-cancer properties. For example, curcumin (from turmeric), green tea extract, and resveratrol (found in red grapes and wine) have shown some anti-cancer effects in laboratory studies and early clinical trials.

2. Mind-Body Interventions: Techniques such as meditation, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and yoga have been researched for their ability to reduce stress, improve quality of life, and potentially enhance immune function in cancer patients.

3. Acupuncture: This traditional Chinese medicine technique involves stimulating specific points on the body with needles. Some studies suggest acupuncture may help manage cancer-related pain, nausea, and vomiting, though results are mixed and more research is needed.

4. Dietary Approaches: The ketogenic diet, which is high in fats and low in carbohydrates, has garnered interest for its potential to starve cancer cells (which often rely on glucose). Some studies suggest it may have a role in certain cancers, but rigorous clinical evidence is still lacking.

5. Exercise and Physical Activity: Regular exercise has been shown to improve physical function, reduce fatigue, and enhance quality of life in cancer patients. It may also have indirect anti-cancer effects by improving immune function and reducing inflammation.
6. (TCM) and Ayurveda: These traditional medical systems offer a range of therapies such as herbal medicines, acupuncture, and dietary advice. Some components of TCM and Ayurveda have been studied for their potential anti-cancer properties or supportive roles in cancer care.
7. Psychotherapy and Supportive Therapies: Counseling, support groups, and other forms of psychotherapy can help patients cope with the emotional and psychological challenges of cancer, potentially improving overall well-being and treatment adherence.

It’s important to note that while some individuals may find these therapies helpful, they are typically used in conjunction with conventional cancer treatments, not as substitutes. Integrative oncology approaches combine evidence-based conventional medicine with select alternative therapies to provide comprehensive care tailored to the individual needs of patients.

Here are our lists for the successful alternative cancer therapies:

1. Antineoplaston therapy: As a young scientist, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski isolated various peptides (amino acid chains that are necessary for forming proteins) from human urine, and discovered that they are very effective in suppressing the growth of certain types of cancer. They belong to the arsenal of the body’s biochemical defense system. They do not destroy the defective cells, rather they correct them or reprogram them, they carry good information to the abnormal cells, and tell them how they can develop normally. It has been determined that people with cancer only have 2-3% of the normal number of these peptides.
2. Hyperthermia: The word hyperthermia comes from the Greek and means over-warming (hyper: too much and thermos: warmth). The idea of hyperthermia naturally comes from the consideration that an artificial increase in body temperature is the same as healing fever. I cannot agree and my personal experiences show me clearly that there is really a significant difference between the body generating fever because bacteria is injected into it, as with the Coley therapy, or increased bodily temperature produced through artificially generated waves. There is another interesting aspect of hypothermia that is also very interesting; it is certainly a therapy, which has successfully found a place in allopathy through the detour of alternative medicine.
3. Galvano Therapy – Bio-Electro-Therapy: In the therapy two platinum wire electrodes are introduced directly into the tumor, or into surrounding tissue, or in the case of melanomas, platinum platelets as electrodes are placed on the skin. Then a weak direct current flows between both electrodes, which reverses the polarity of the cancer cells in the tumor tissue and allows the cancer cells to die.
4. Laetrile: Laetrile, also referred to as amygdaline or vitamin B17 is a nitriloside and caused quite a furor in America in the 1970s. An active ingredient, which particularly occurs in the seeds of apricots or apples became so well-known as an anti-cancer agent, that first the Sloan Kettering Center in New York, and then even the Mayo Clinic in Rochester performed their own studies. “Naturally” with the result that the predominantly positive studies produced by biochemist, Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, in which he was could prove that Laetrile was able to particularly stop the growth of smaller tumors, could not be correct. Rubin also proved that patients with breast cancer or bone cancer lived longer.
5. Ukrain: Ukrain is a mixture of chelidonium majus L. Better known as greater celandine and the cytostatic agent, thiotepa. It contains different types of alkaloids whose concentration is seasonal, similar to mistletoe, and it is approved as a medication in the Ukraine and in White Russia. It was discovered by the chemist J.W. Nowicky from Vienna, who is also the chairman of the Ukrain Institute for Cancer in Vienna, which I visited together with Frank Wiewel for the first time in 1999.
6. Photodynamic Therapy and Cytoluminescent Therapy: The idea of photodynamic therapy is basically quite simple and has been known for more than a century. Neils Finsen even won a Nobel Prize for his light therapy, and Hermann von Tappeier published his work in 1904. But it was not until the 1960s when laser research was being advanced that people remembered this work. The idea however stayed the same. (Cancer) cells are enriched with a dye and then these cells are radiated with light. Enrichment can occur through salves (aminolevulinic acid) or through orally administered photosentizers.
7. IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy): The IPT therapy was developed by a Mexican physician, Dr. Perez Garcia, who used insulin to treat syphilis patients 1926. Years later, together with his son, he started to use IPT as cancer therapy as well. The basic theory of the therapy is that insulin followed by a sugar solution helps other medications get into the cells more effectively, and in a more concentrated form. Thus IPT is naturally not a classic cancer therapy, but rather it is used in different areas of medicine.
8. Enzymes: The cradle of modern enzyme therapy is Vienna, where the researchers Freund and Kaminer worked with cancer cells. The found out that cancer cells were destroyed by the blood of healthy people, however cancer cells were not destroyed by the blood of cancer patients.
9. Hulda Clark: The approach of effecting a positive influence via frequencies is certainly correct, and it was due to Hulda Clark that this approach again attracted wide-spread attention. A zapper is a small device that transmits different frequencies and is said to be capable of destroying the parasite, or viruses and bacteria.
10. Fetal cell therapy: The use of fetal stem cells has been researched for decades in Russia and China. Currently this therapy is again in the media naturally due to the global discussion about stem cells and human clones. While politicians discuss the issue, these cells however have been used for decades, because in theory, fetal cells are capable of changing into almost any cell that is required in the body. For instance if people have too few immune cells, then stem cells help to re-stimulate the immune system. In studies the immune system was increased by a factor of 22 over the normal, in some cases. In one study there was even a clear increase in 86% of all participants. Moreover examinations have shown that fetal stem cells are capable of inhibiting the side effects of chemotherapy and irradiation.
11. Homeopathy: The founder of homeopathy was Dr. Samual Hahnemann, who lived from 1755-1843. Homeopathy means, “similar suffering” (homoion = similar and pathos = suffering). Hahnemann believed that an illness should be treated with a medication that would induce “similar suffering” in a healthy person. His statement in Latin: „Similia similibus curentur”, in English: “Let likes be cured by likes” has gone down in medical history. Hahnemann assumed that the disease symptoms are not the illness itself, rather they are reactions to the causes of the disorder. These causes are nothing more than the body’s attempt to regulate. Thus homeopathy does not try to suppress the symptoms, and thus the regulation attempt, rather it attempts to stimulate the self-healing powers of the body.
12. Mistletoe: Mistletoe today is the substance which is prescribed most frequently in addition to conventional therapies. This manner of thinking continues in hundreds of studies on mistletoe. In most studies the focus is on improving the side effects of conventional therapies and this even though there is no other substance whose content has been more precisely investigated than mistletoe. Starting with viscin, the sticky and eudermic adhesive and extending to oleanols, cerotine, linoloc acid linoleic acid, arginine, glycogalactopentosan, these are the substances that some people maintain are the strongest cancer inhibitors in mistletoe.
13. Oxygen and Ozone Therapy: Ever since Dr. Warburg recognized in the 1920s, that cancer cells have an acute oxygen problem, there have been a wide variety different approaches aimed at healing or relieving cancer by administering oxygen and ozone. Doubtless the theoretical background is interesting. However I am against simply accepting this therapy as a given and administering oxygen and ozone to every cancer patient. We should not forget that both substances can be fatal, and that these therapies only make sense if oxygen really gets into the cells. From the chemical perspective this involves O2 or O3 and both substances produce free radicals in the body, which we know can play a negative role with cancer. In addition, oxygen influences the oxidation of glucose and this process also can be important in a cancer therapy.
14. Vitamins: There is not a day that goes by when I am not asked about vitamin C, or the importance of vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, like lysine etc. in general. Therapeutically there must be a distinction between orally administered and intravenous applications. Thus in several studies, vitamin C administered intravenously has been able to demonstrate that it certainly has a legitimate place in oncology (L. Benade and D. Burk, C. Maramag and M. Menon, NH and HD Riordan, and many more). Logically the important influence on the blood pH value is different if vitamins are administered intravenously, or if they are administered orally. On the other hand there are studies in which vitamin C has clearly increased the growth of cancer cells (Dr. Chan Park or Dr. Joel Schwartz). Now I am not impressed when laboratory studies are applied to people, but such studies are “overlooked” by proponents of Vitamin C, and instead other laboratory experiments are consistently overvalued without considering this side of the coin.
15. Oil protein diet (Budwig Diet): Treatment developed by the German biochemist Dr. Johanna Budwig in the 1950s. The diet consists of multiple daily servings of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese, as well as vegetables, fruits and juices.
16. Gerson Diet: “There is no cancer in a normal metabolism”, wrote Max Gerson, and this was also the basic principle of his therapy. It is only possible for cancer cells to grow abnormally if the liver, the spleen, and other parts of our immune system, are disturbed. Thus in order to treat cancer successfully the highest priority is placed on getting the disturbed metabolism back on the right track. This is accomplished through intensive detoxification and introducing important nutrients through a low-fat, salt-free diet. Although this sounds easy at first, in practice it requires considerable effort, since introducing the important enzymes, vitamins, and minerals mainly involves the patient drinking fresh-squeezed/pressed juice every hour (thirteen times a day) and having a coffee enema several times a day.
17. Breuß diet: Rudolf Breuß was a homeopathic practitioner from Bludenz in Austria, who dared to take a stand against the prevailing opinion that cancer patients should not fast. While his “teachers” like Dr. Otto Buchinger were vehement proponents of the 21-day fast, he was of the opinion that the usual 21-days were much too short and that patients should fast for 42-days. The idea behind this therapy is that during longer fasts the body will get rid of everything that does not belong in it – including tumors. Breuß repeatedly stated that had healed over 1000 cancer patients and thousands of other persons with serious diseases.

No matter what therapy you are willing to go with, all that matters is that you will be free from what you are feeling and going through and it can help in your overall health.