More than 4 million Americans are currently being treated for cancer. Each year, 1.3 million Americans are newly diagnosed with cancer. For the past four decades, both the incidence and age-adjusted death rate from cancer in America have been climbing steadily.
Cancer is an abnormal growth, caused by underlying disease involving the whole body.
It is not just limited to a lump or bump. The successful treatment of cancer is best accomplished by the precise administration of multiple therapies. Neither conventional nor alternative medicine recognizes the importance of multimodality treatment, and the end result is that too many cancer patients needlessly die. Although the mainstream therapies of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery often do reduce tumor burden, these therapies do not change the underlying causes of the disease. Given the blatant failures of conventional cancer therapies, it is imperative that we examine optional and complementary therapies to assist the swelling ranks of American cancer patients.