{"id":1268,"date":"2014-07-18T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2015-02-02T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T01:01:56","slug":"quality-of-life-benefits-drive-mainstream-adoption-of-alternative-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/quality-of-life-benefits-drive-mainstream-adoption-of-alternative-cancer-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality of Life Benefits Drive Mainstream Adoption of Alternative Cancer Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1269\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1269\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MP9003211001-200x142.jpg\" alt=\"Acupuncture \" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MP9003211001-200x142.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MP9003211001.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acupuncture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what many consider to be a revolutionary change in traditional medical thinking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/treatmentsummary.aspx\">alternative cancer treatments<\/a> are going mainstream. With a growing number of studies and mounting clinical evidence pointing to the quality of life benefits of many alternative treatments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rep-am.com\/articles\/2014\/07\/05\/lifestyle\/health\/811869.txt\">practitioners of Western medicine have begun adopting alternative cancer therapies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cRebirth\u201d of Alternative Cancer Therapies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once given short shrift by traditional oncologists, acupuncture, <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/how-autohemotherapy-bolsters-immune-response\/\">autohemotherapy<\/a>, massage therapy, <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/how-is-hyperthermia-used-in-the-treatment-of-cancer-tumors\/\">hyperthermia<\/a>, phytotherapy\u00a0and a lengthy list of beneficial alternative cancer therapies are undergoing \u201crebirth\u201d as the traditional cancer community recognizes their <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/integrative-immunotherapy-cancer-treatment-that-improves-quality-of-life\/\">quality of life benefits<\/a> in the light of new research revealing the <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/immunotherapy-the-cancer-protocol-for-the-future\/\">importance of immunotherapy in fighting cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative treatments are not new, but have been used to battle disease or ease its symptoms for thousands of years, as these examples indicate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/treatment\/acupuncture.aspx\">Acupuncture<\/a> has been an accepted and respected treatment procedure in traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The use of herbal medicine, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/treatment\/phytotherapy.aspx\">phytotherapy<\/a>, dates back to man\u2019s earliest attempts to treat disease and has historical significance in nearly every human culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The therapeutic use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/treatment\/massage.aspx\">massage therapy<\/a>\u00a0also has its roots in antiquity. The Greek physician Hippocrates, considered to be the Father of Medicine, wrote about the therapeutic benefits of \u201crubbing\u201d in the 5th century B.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Everything Old Is New Again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is \u201cnew\u201d in Western medical circles is recognition of the validity of these ancient therapies and their ability to enhance cancer treatment and mitigate the pain and side effects of traditional cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 60 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/AboutUs.aspx\">Issels Integrative Oncology<\/a> has incorporated beneficial alternative cancer therapies into our personalized <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/02\/what-is-the-immunobiologic-core-treatment\/\">immunobiologic core treatment for cancer<\/a>\u00a0as part of our\u00a0comprehensive\u00a0program of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/default.aspx\">integrative immunotherapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what many consider to be a revolutionary change in traditional medical thinking, alternative cancer treatments are going mainstream. With a growing number of studies and mounting clinical evidence pointing to the quality of life benefits of many alternative treatments, practitioners of Western medicine have begun adopting alternative cancer therapies. \u201cRebirth\u201d of Alternative Cancer Therapies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/quality-of-life-benefits-drive-mainstream-adoption-of-alternative-cancer-treatments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quality of Life Benefits Drive Mainstream Adoption of Alternative Cancer Treatments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,204],"tags":[218,292,283,291],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-living-with-cancer","tag-alternative-cancer-therapies","tag-genetics","tag-message","tag-teen-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}