4 Pillar Cancer Treatment Philosophy

One of the podcasts I found before we ever decided to seek care at the Cancer Center for Healing in Irvine CA, was Episode 54 of the Be Perfectly Healthy podcast with Dr. Daniel Roney, DC titled “Our Integrative, 4 Pillar Approach to Cancer.” This podcast changed EVERYTHING for me. Dr. Roney provided such a tone and message of hope, but he also categorically gave a roadmap for how to approach cancer in which you may use both integrative and traditional (standard of care) treatments. To me, it felt like in the near-term we needed to treat the tumor and residual cells, but we also needed to support his body through those treatments, and then take a root cause approach to understand if there were any environmental factors that allowed cancer to grow. This information can be found directly on the Cancer Center For Healing’s website linked HERE.  This podcast is informational regardless of where you are in you or your loved one’s cancer journey.

  • Pillar 1: Testing

    The first step is testing. The type of testing will be based on the patients symptoms, examination or location of tumor. Testing types could include bloodwork, MRI, PET scan, CT scan, ultrasound, or various other testing means typically ordered from the patient’s primary physician or specialist. Other testing technologies used primarily in integrative practices may include blood tests like RCGG or Datar Cancer Genetics that can give more individualized data, which can include circulating tumor cells. Testing also includes pathology reports, genetic markers, and variants associated with the tumor or cancer type. This information is critical to diagnosing the type and stage of cancer. Based on this information, treatments will be determined.

  • Pillar 2: Treatments

    Treatments in traditional oncology include the use of FDA approved drugs and chemo agents, radiation and surgery. Integrative oncology is using “fractioned chemo” in the treatment of some types of cancer. Treatments could also include repurposed drugs like ivermectin, albendazole, mebendazole, low dose naltrexone and many others to relieve inflammation or block cancer pathways. Again, the type of drugs and chemo agents will be determined from testing data in Pillar 1. 

  • Pillar 3: Immune Boosting Therapies

    This is where an integrative mindset really comes into play. The purpose of immune boosting therapies is to support your body through the treatments from Pillar 2. Most oncologists are not recommending immune boosting therapies because most of the therapies do not have FDA approval for cancer or they have never been scientifically studied and accepted as a standard of care in the oncology system.  Visit our modalities page to explore therapy options.

  • Pillar 4: Eliminate Cancer Root Causes

    This is the Pillar that rarely becomes a part of the treatment plan if you only stay in the traditional oncology world. Pillar four digs deep to understand your environment and lifestyle and tries to uncover the factors that lead to a terrain and cellular environment that actively grows cancer. The Cancer Center for Healing has so many incredible ways to test this pillar but it first starts with a very in depth conversation with your practitioner. For both of us, that included a two-hour meeting with Dr. Connealy in which she dug into our husband’s life and medical history from birth until diagnosis. A look at stress, environmental toxins, traumas, life events, surgeries, medical diagnosis and treatments. CCFH provides protocols on diet change, testing for exposure to toxins and heavy metals, testing for nutritional and mineral deficiencies, infections such as fungus, mold, bacterial, viral, hormone imbalances, and lifestyle imbalances and exposure like stress and EMFs, among many others.