Providence Experts Offer Advice for Alternative Cancer Care

Sept. 30, 2008

PREVENTING PROSTATE CANCER THROUGH HEALTHY EATING

New research supports the role that healthy eating choices play both in preventing prostate cancer and in improving outcomes during treatment. Whether you are concerned with lowering your risk of prostate cancer, or you have prostate cancer and wish to slow its growth or progression, Providence experts can offer some safe and reasonable nutritional ideas.

INTEGRATIVE CARE FOR CANCER

Integrative medicine uses a compassionate, whole-person approach to treating a variety of illnesses. Whether the symptom is pain, fatigue, weight gain, anxiety, nausea, skin rash – or a combination – the goal is to see the whole picture. Providence experts are available to discuss the full range of therapies available, including:

• Massage therapy, which reduces stress, promotes relaxation and can lessen pain.
• Acupuncture, which optimizes health and reduces side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
• Hydrotherapy, which relieves pain symptoms, reduces stress, and combats dryness and dehydration.

AVOIDING LUNG CANCER AFTER YOU’VE ALREADY QUIT SMOKING

You stopped smoking 10 years ago. How much risk is there that you will develop lung cancer?  Providence thoracic physicians can help assess lung cancer risk, recognize lung cancer symptoms, and discuss dietary measures, supplements and other strategies that may lessen the effects of your earlier bad habits.

THIS IS YOUR TREATMENT TALKING

Cancer coping techniques are as different as each person with the disease. What most patients and health care workers can agree on is that talking about it helps. Support groups provide a forum for sharing information, experience and feelings. Providence Cancer Center offers a variety of support groups to help patients and their families talk through expectations and experiences during all stages of the disease.