"Thanks for all your inspirational work."
Susan Davidson, Regional Development Director CANCERactive, registered UK based cancer charity.

The conventional treatment the NHS offers in this country is excellent. My professional and personal experiences made me realise how patients need to be given informed choices about the wider options available to support their treatment.

Perhaps you could take a moment to reflect on how you are feeling.

Maybe you are finding it difficult to manage the far reaching side effects of your treatment.

Maybe you find yourself feeling constantly run down and unwell, perhaps getting one infection after another.

Perhaps you are troubled by unanswered questions ,queries or symptoms relating to your health condition. Whilst it is always key to discuss these with your conventional Oncology/ Medical team/ General Practitioner sometimes an integrative, complementary medical approach can offer alternative perspectives, possibilities and solutions.

Maybe you are aware that there is so much out there that you could do for yourself in addition to your conventional medical treatment. However at the same time you are confused, desperately wanting to make an informed choice but simply overwhelmed by so much information.

Perhaps you have a vision of where you'd like to be but just don't quite know how to get there.

Maybe you feel you've done everything right but your cancer has come back and you just can't face going through it all again. You know you need to do things differently this time.

An Integrative approach could offer help.

“ We can't solve a problem with the same mindset that created it .“
Albert Einstein

Holistic Cancer Care in Perspective

The human body may naturally manage and destroy cancer cells every day through normal physiological functioning . Both during and after any form of cancer treatment it is key to maximise the health and functioning of the bodies own natural defence systems. There are many excellent clinics around the world including the Hippocrates Institute in Florida USA, Thomas Lodi's Oasis of Healing in Arizona, The Gerson Institute in Mexico, and many more based in Austria, Germany, and other parts of Europe that use specialised natural dietary therapy alone or as a significant element in the context of a holistic based programme to successfully treat and support cancer patients . For certain patients some of these clinics may use smaller doses of chemotherapy, typically between 5 and 10% of that used conventionally. However the focus of their treatment remains a holistic programme.

These inspirational clinics typically charge thousands of euros per treatment cycle, making them available only to some. Further, they require people to spend weeks away from their family and friends, usually an invaluable part of their support systems. If they do participate in a programme some people find it hard to stick to the rigorous nutritional therapy, for example a diet consisting of largely or entirely raw food and juices when they move back to their own surroundings. A further difficulty can be returning to a different climate where as they listen to their bodies some how lots of raw food doesn't feel right. Energetically what is right in one climate doesn't always feel right in a different one.

Aware of these challenges first hand I decided to work towards creating my own patient centred approach. Defined by the integration of evidence based practice, therapeutic efficacy affordability and availability for patients in the UK.

"For healing purposes the body must be detoxified- activated with ionised minerals, natural food so that the essential organs can function again."
Dr. Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and The Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy.

Why choose Integrative Health ?

My approach works to support the mainstay of cancer treatment available in the NHS and Private Practice.

My protocols are focused on nurturing physical, immunological, emotional and energetic well being, in a holistic based setting.

We may move towards achieving this by strengthening and replenishing what is correct, ie supporting our being to find its most loving, intelligent, resilient and safe state.

As we explore a multitude of holistic tools, techniques and methods together my hope is that you, and your loved ones may experience a greater sense of knowing, empowerment and vitality. What you do can make a difference.

You might like to visit the Kind Words header to share some of my patient's experiences of a holistic programme.

"You cannot fight disease, you must turn on life."
Arno Burnier , quoting his teacher

" Shortly after my daughter Grace was diagnosed with Leukaemia aged 13 months we were told by her Oncologists to expect her in hospital about once a month with a neutropenic infection, (an infection precipitated by a low level of immune cells called neutrophils, our bodies first line of defence against any type of infection). During her two and half years of chemotherapy she was only admitted on three occasions, three times over thirty months, and never once after she began a specialised dietary based programme . We also noticed that she only required a blood transfusion on a couple of occasions as opposed to more regularly which can be more typical for patients being treated for leukaemia with regimen C therapy, ( the highest dose regime for ALL) . In fact her consultant said he had only ever observed one other child able to manage such a high dose of the chemotherapy agents used. Grace was always a strong and resilient little girl but I have no doubt specialised dietary therapy supported her treatment." Dr. Kate James.

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Dr. James works holistically to support her patients, some of whom have cancer and some of whom have other medical conditions. Dr. James does not treat cancer, or any other medical conditions, and does not offer allopathic medical treatment or services.