{"id":872,"date":"2013-11-13T05:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:49:47","slug":"women-call-alternative-cancer-therapies-empowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/women-call-alternative-cancer-therapies-empowering\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Call Alternative Cancer Therapies \u201cEmpowering\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-873\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MP9004485271-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"Happy young woman with a white background\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MP9004485271-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MP9004485271.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alternative cancer therapy use is on the rise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four British women with cancer called their use of alternative cancer therapies \u201cempowering\u201d in interviews published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/10383724\/I-feel-empowered-in-control-of-my-body-four-women-on-fighting-cancer-with-alternative-therapies.html\"><i>The Telegraph<\/i><\/a>. As is true in the U.S. and Canada, more cancer patients in the United Kingdom are seeking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/TreatmentSummary.aspx#sthash.pJVviiQK.dpbs\">alternative cancer treatments<\/a> either instead of or in conjunction with standard chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The British breast cancer charity The Haven told the <i>Telegraph<\/i> that \u201c89% of its service users found that non-medical, complementary therapies (including herbal medicine and nutritional, energy, touch and mind-body therapies) were \u2018essential\u2019 to their recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, despite considerable evidence to the contrary, the UK&#8217;s National Health Service has so far failed to recognize the importance of diet in boosting the immune system and fighting cancer, prompting an outcry from UK cancer patients. Like the other cancer victims interviewed, Alyssa Burns-Hills, a health specialist, cited diet change as integral to her successful fight against stage one invasive carcinoma. Carefully planned diet change is recommended by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/women-call-alternative-cancer-therapies-empowering\/\">immunotherapy<\/a>\u00a0and cancer experts at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Issels-Medical-Center.aspx\">Issels Medical Center<\/a>\u00a0in Santa Barbara, California. Now 50 and cancer-free for 12 years, Alyssa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/women-call-alternative-cancer-therapies-empowering\/\">credits<\/a>\u00a0her diet for playing a major role in her recovery and continued good health.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative cancer therapies evoke much discussion, and there are all kinds of alternative treatments. But many cancer treatments that were once considered \u201cout there\u201d have proven to be reliably effective, including immunotherapy and diet, and are now embraced by traditional medicine. As the four women interviewed discovered, keeping an open mind about alternative cancer therapy could save your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four British women with cancer called their use of alternative cancer therapies \u201cempowering\u201d in interviews published in The Telegraph. As is true in the U.S. and Canada, more cancer patients in the United Kingdom are seeking alternative cancer treatments either instead of or in conjunction with standard chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The British breast cancer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/women-call-alternative-cancer-therapies-empowering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women Call Alternative Cancer Therapies \u201cEmpowering\u201d<\/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":[202,231],"tags":[269,259],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-cancer-survivors","tag-chemo-alternatives","tag-fighting-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}