Under review –

Active Intervention Considerations – Anti-cancer aspects of a nutritious and healthy diet are a true component (not a separate aspect) of living a healthy lifestyle.

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Active Interventions in Practice:  For a number of years Flemming H Rasmussen has acted as moderator for a small complementary and alternative  (CAM) group that considers other options alongside and outside of conventional treatment. We already find that suitable manipulations of the external environment through specific dietary and supplemental measures negatively affect the viability of cancer cells while having no recognizable effect on normal cells.

The onus reverts almost exclusively to the patient for these approaches.  A number of cancer patients have opted to adopt suggestions based on this concept.  It is far from what one would refer to as a controlled setting though, so even with observed encouraging outcomes, in a reflection of the realities of life, it is mentally difficult to adhere to these dietary plans over a prolonged period of time.  As is the reality in many scenarios, increased cancer markers are common when aspects of this (or ANY) intervention are relaxed; we have consistently witnessed that a re-dedication to the diet often reverses the set-back experienced.

This diet component is not a panacea but its disciplined adoption has yielded tremendous shifts in survival and quality of life for adult patients with metastatic breast cancer, multiple myeloma, and pancreatic cancer.