My practice utilizes the best in nutritional and herbal therapies to aid in the management of cancer. While acupuncture and chiropractic certainly can help manage these patients, it is the Traditional Chinese Herbal Therapy that often delivers the multi-pronged punch which controls tumors.

How can herbs treat cancer? Well, plants get cancer and they can't get to the oncologist for help. They had to evolve their own methods to defend their bodies. Plants gets cancer because they are engaged in the most dangerous daily job around:  photosynthesis and manufacturing of oxygen. This leads to oxidative stress and damage to DNA, or the recipe for cancer formation.

While conventional medicine is decidedly focused on killing cancer cells, Chinese medicine focuses on tumor control. In each Traditional Chinese Herbal Formula are many naturally occurring compounds which exert control over cancer cells. The net effect is an inability of cancer cells to mutate their way into dominating the body. The body then has the time to reestablish control over the tumor. Using Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in conjunction with key supplementation allows for:

• Cancer cell differentiation:  this makes it easier for the body to recognize and kill cancer cells.
• Cancer cell death.
• Inhibition of tumor cell metabolism.
• Improved intracellular communication and control of growth of cancer cells.
• Inhibition of blood flow to tumor mass to starve the tumor of a blood supply.
• Inhibition of tumor cell invasion.
• Inhibition of metastasis (spread).
• Enhancement of immune function.
• Neutralization of free radicals.

Success comes from creating stability with cancer, not necessarily the eradication of all cancer cells. This will show in our animals as a general improved quality of life and increased longevity.

• Increased comfort and decreased pain.
• Increased strength and appetite.
• Decreased symptoms of cancer.

Often, patients will just look like they do not have cancer anymore or at least not a cancer that has taken over. There is absolutely no reason why traditional chemotherapy can not be used in conjunction with herbal therapies. As a matter of fact, herbal therapies have been clinically proven to increase the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

If your pet gets a diagnosis, the first step is to consult with your primary care veterinarian for your options for best results (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, etc.). Before starting these therapies, it is time to consult with Landau Veterinary Services to maximize success and minimize side effects.