Where Does CCRG Fit into the Cancer Picture?
CCRG does not treat cancer or other diseases. CCRG advocates for a focus on strengthening the body’s metabolism and altering the immune system to make important changes in the internal environment.

CCRG, and many other scientists and medical specialists believe that the human body has incredible potential for self-diagnosis, for repair, for regeneration. The first questions asked by CCRG when we see a person with cancer are; “Why is healing not happening in this person? What's blocking it? What can be done to facilitate the natural healing built into the body’s metabolic and immune system pathways?”

Conventional cancer treatments often have significant side effects and most often are not 100 percent effective. Especially if your cancer treatment is particularly difficult to endure or doesn't promise you the results you desire, complementary and alternative medicine approaches may appear to be an attractive treatment option. The longer you have cancer, the more likely you are to start searching for these other cancer treatment options.

The question of using complementary or alternative approaches as opposed to conventional (western medicine) therapy is faced by everyone genuinely concerned about taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. Both schools of thought, the new and the old, have their pros and cons. The key to making an informed decision involves two things: common sense and a little homework.

Can complementary therapies “cure cancer” by themselves? No one knows for sure, but why personally risk it? On the other hand, can standard therapies cure cancer by themselves? The low survival rates would indicate no, but certainly one should not necessarily risk doing one without the other.

What we do know from thousands of peer-reviewed articles is that nutraceutical supplementation can:

• prevent or reverse the common malnutrition that plagues cancer patients
   
• make the medical therapies of chemotherapy and radiation more of a selective toxin while protecting the patient from damage
   
• bolster the cancer patient’s immune system to provide a microscopic army of warriors to fight the cancer throughout the body, because when the doctor says: “We think we got it all” that’s when we are relying on a well-nourished immune system to locate, recognize, and destroy the inevitable remaining cancer cells.
   
• slow down cancer with nutrients that make the body more resistant to invasion from tumour cells

What we further know from scientific and medical research over the past several decades is that the body’s own systems, when functioning normally, can assist with beating cancer through:

• DNA repair
• cell-cell communication
• macrophage engulf
• apoptosis (programmed cell kill)
• collagen encapsulation
• anti-angiogenesis (helping inhibit the spread of cancer in the blood)
• tumour necrosis (cell death)

A person with cancer needs to put together a team of experts that includes a cancer specialist that you can trust and work with. This could be a surgeon, an oncologist, a radiation therapist, or even a primary care physician. It is important that each person feels comfortable with their care providers and acts as a partner in the team.

CCRG believes that dealing with cancer is an individual journey -- one that is unpredictable. We all desire magic: "If I just eat this, take this herb, eat this supplement and do this exercise, the cancer won't come back again." There is no magic.

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