Independent, holistic cancer consulting
Sooner or later all those who are involved intensively with non-conventional cancer therapies, are confronted with the same problem: The majority of all patients only turn to biological therapies when conventional therapies have failed. Unfortunately the starting point at which a biological therapy is employed is totally different than it was when chemotherapy or irradiation was administered, because our body is no longer the same after irradiation or chemotherapy, not even if “objective data”, such as hemograms, stabilize after several weeks.
In 99.9% of cases cancer is diagnosed by conventionally trained physicians, and consequently most patients are also treated conventionally. However, since doctors are only slightly familiar (or not at all familiar) with non-conventional therapies (mistletoe, thymus, enzymes, vitamins, etc.), and often they still have a large information deficit concerning the statistics on conventionally used therapies, patients usually can only choose between an operation, chemotherapy, and irradiation.
The greatest deficit however with those directly affected, and this also includes family members, who usually are not in a situation where they can make rational decisions immediately after the diagnosis. The emotional involvement does not permit this. This is unfortunately the reason why far too many rash decisions are still being made; decisions that many patients later regret. This is understandable, because when people have cancer, they almost always believe that they do not have any time to consider things, or to research the issues.

But let’s be honest:

* what doctor provides his patients with copies of studies about the chemotherapy or the irradiation that will be administered?

* what doctor is even capable of describing a conventional approach AND a non-conventional approach?

* what patient can pose THE questions to his doctor that are really important (due to the patient’s lack of knowledge and the emotional impact of the patient’s diagnosis)?

However it particularly these three points that are the most important after a diagnosis of cancer. Unfortunately there are only a few people who have the good fortune to be able to sit across the table from a doctor who is familiar with both important directions of oncology. Another major challenge is to determine whether the therapy offered would help just the patient, or whether it also helps others. For a number of very different reasons many patients are “directed into studies” and thus they lose forever the chance that is afforded by non-conventional, successful, therapies. On the other hand others pay for expensive non-conventional therapies and only determine much too late that the therapies offered do not even come close to being worth the money. Unfortunately the issues of money, career, and therapies are almost always related and thus it is very difficult for a lay person (and often for experts as well) to understand whether the therapies offered are independent from other – mostly financial – interests. This is the reason why other teachers and I started offering career training to those interested in becoming a holistic cancer consultant.