Integrative Cancer Care
KNOW ALL YOUR OPTIONS
A cancer diagnosis is stressful, frightening and overwhelming. Making decisions about treatment during this phase is challenging. Conventional oncologists usually recommend only conventional treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, but you may be left wondering, "is there something else that can benefit me?"
Your cancer consultation at the Stram Center will provide you with all your options to help you through the process of making these difficult decisions. If conventional therapy is the right course of treatment, we will inform you. We will also give you insight into other integrative options that can be beneficial both as an adjunct treatment to reduce side effects and as a standalone therapy to combat cancer.
Compassionate Experienced Care
Integrative Medicine practiced at the Center, under the direction of Dr. Ronald Stram brings together experienced providers alongside complementary therapists who are appropriately trained and certified. Our therapists have been selected carefully for their skill and sensitivity in order to provide the highest quality of care to our patients. The emphasis at the Center is our team approach in the care of our patients to provide the most effective treatment, respecting the medical wisdom across disciplines.
Management of the Cancer Patient at the Stram Center, Delmar, NY and Burlington, Vt offices
Treatment plans are developed for the cancer patient with the goal of enhancing conventional cancer therapies (chemotherapy and radiation) and supporting cancer cell death while protecting the health of normal cells and include:
- Review of caloric and diet history;
- Establishing individualized nutrition assessment;
- Dietary plans to optimize energy levels and maintain lean body mass
Supplementation Therapies Including High Dose IV Vitamin C, IV Artemesinin, other vitamins, IV Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA), Herbs and Botanicals to:
- stimulate and increase immune system function
- encourage cellular repair and regeneration
- accelerate the process of recovery
- provide preventative immune support
- inhibit disease progression
- enhance treatment efficacy
- bolster cancer-fighting capacity
- reduce side effects of conventional treatment
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Cancer:
Cancer thrives in hypoxic (low levels of oxygen) environments and hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been shown to increase these oxygen levels to weaken tumors and reduce their aggressiveness.
Enhance "conventional" cancer therapies and treatments and reduce side effects with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
- better radiation therapy results
- improves chemotherapy outcomes
- reduces radiation therapy side effects
- decreases chemotherapy side effects
- accelerates post-operative healing and prevents infection
Enhance IV Cancer treatments with hyperbaric oxygen Therapy
- increases intravenous vitamin c therapy effects
- enhances chemotherapy uptake
- Reduce Tumor aggressiveness
- Increase natural killer cell activity and function with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Cancer prevention with hyperbaric oxygen therapy:
- decreases inflammatory markers
- normalizes intracellular oxgyen levels
- stimulates cellular detoxifcation
- reduces risk of pathogenic inflammatory-related tumors
- supports cellular energy processes for optimal DNA repair
Nutrition Counseling
Nutrition is an essential piece of an optimal health plan for anyone battling cancer, or looking to prevent cancer. Current research estimates that between 35% to 60% of cancer cases can be linked back to dietary factors alone. This is more than tobacco, air/water pollution, alcohol, radiation, and medications combined.
We can develop an individualized plan to help minimize treatment side effects, while maximizing the benefits of the treatment. We can develop a nutrition and supplement plan to boost/support the immune system, fight the cancer at the cellular level, and change the very environment that may be fueling the cancer.
Our Special Team Approach To Your Health Care
At the Center, our practitioners have the opportunity to consult with complementary practitioners and medical doctors about your health concerns and the progress you are making. These practitioners are always available to you as well.
We take great pride in our staff’s special team consulting approach to the care of our patients, giving you the best that Integrative Medicine has to offer.
Our Integrative Medicine Approach
Our Integrative Medicine approach practiced at The Center, is based on a more caring practitioner-client partnership which incorporates the best of conventional Western medicine with alternative and complementary therapies resulting in a safer, more natural, whole body approach to stimulate the body’s natural healing potential. Our emphasis is our team approach in the care of our patients to provide the most effective treatment, respecting the medical wisdom across all disciplines.
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Delmar NY office: 518.689.2244; Burlington, VT office: 802.891-3459
Integrative Treatment Options
IV Vitamin C Therapy for Cancer
There is much research regarding the use of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in cancer therapy. However, most of the research focuses on oral rather than the more effective intravenous (IV) route of administration. IV vitamin C has a significantly greater effect on immune enhancement than the conventional oral route of administration.Learn More
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Cancer
Cancer thrives in hypoxic (low levels of oxygen) environments and hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been shown to increase these oxygen levels to weaken tumors and reduce their aggressiveness.Learn More
IV Glutathione for Cancer
Glutathioneis an important endogenous anti-oxidant and detoxifier, involved in DNA synthesis and repair, metabolism of medications, toxins and carcinogens.Learn More
Medical Consultations for Chronic Illness
WHAT TO EXPECT You as the patient, more than anyone, know your body and know your symptoms. Our medical practitioners’ jobs are to properly diagnose your ailment, uncover the root cause and thereby formulate a treatment plan that effectively addresses your needs. A treatment plan is only useful and long lasting if it is treating the root cause, which is why Stram Center practitioners take the…Learn More
Artemisinin for Cancer and Infections
Also known as artesunate, an extraction from the Wormwood plant, and widely known as an effective treatment for malaria, additionally, artemisinin, is known to have anti-cancer, antibacterial, antifungal, antitumor and ant-inflammatory benefits.Click here for more information on Artemisinin for Cancer and Infections at the Stram Center.Learn More
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