Cancer: A Controversial Subject
CCRG's Role in Cancer
Therapy
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 conventional cancer
treatment is particularly difficult to endure or doesn't promise you the
results you desire, complementary medicine approaches
may appear to be an attractive option. The longer that 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 risk it? On the other hand, can
conventional therapies of radiation, chemo and radio-therapy cure cancer by themselves? The overall low survival rates
would indicate no, but certainly one should not risk doing
one without the other.
What we do know from thousands of peer-reviewed articles is that
nutritional and 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. Remember that when your doctor says: “We think we got
it all” that’s when your body must rely 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 defeating 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 take
this herb, eat this supplement and do this exercise, the cancer won't
come back again." Reality check: There is no magic.
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