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| You'll find the latest articles from the Nasri Integrative Medicine Health Centre here. For specific topics, browse the articles under the heading on the right. |
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Breast Cancer Treatment:
An Integrative Approach
In this twenty first century, the word “cancer” still strikes terror in the hearts of most people particularly those who have seen a loved one suffer from it. Cancer in its various forms is the second leading cause of death after heart disease.
Breast cancer has become the second largest cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer, and the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 35 and 54. Almost 20,000 Canadians will contract breast cancer this year and over 5,000 will die from this disease. In fact, Canada has the second highest incidence of breast cancer in the world (trailing only the United States). [MORE]
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Multimodality Low Dose Chemotherapy
The goal of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer is to shrink primary tumors, slow the tumor growth, and kill cancer cells that may have spread (metastasized) to other parts of the body from the original, primary tumor. The underlying conventional rational has been to use the most effective chemo or chemo combinations at as high a dose possible in order to kill the most cancer cells... without killing the patient.
Chemotherapy kills both cancer and healthy cells. Oncologists try to minimize damage to normal cells and to enhance the cytotoxic effect on cancer cells. Too often, unfortunately, this delicate balance is not achieved. Chemotherapy drugs in general have a high rate of failure, that is, because these drugs are unable to penetrate the tumor site, or usually kill only specific types of cancer cells within a tumor, or the cancer cells mutate and become resistant to the chemotherapy. [MORE]
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