What is Integrative Oncology and how can it help my pet?
Let’s first start off with touching base on the fact that even though we have major advances in medicine and are living longer, we also are seeing higher rates of cancer both in humans and our pets than ever before. Cancer is one of the scariest diseases as it can pop up at any time, can be incredibly sneaky in some cases and difficult to diagnose and is also often difficult to treat with our best hopes being to put a patient “in remission” vs being able to “cure” a patient of this disease.
Integrative Oncology combines multiple aspects and types of medicine like conventional (radiation, chemotherapy, surgery, immunotherapy), Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, and integrative/supplemental treatments to provide the best quality of life for your pet. The goal of the integrative aspect of oncology is not to work against our conventional oncology team but to work WITH them. Our goal is to focus on overall patient health and wellbeing. If the body is a garden and cancer is a weed, conventional oncology’s aim is to yank that weed out. Integrative oncology’s goal is to address why that weed developed in the first place and to work on making the garden “soil” healthy.
