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What is the U.S. Doing?

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America is making great strides in integrating biomedicine with alternative therapies

They Offer

  • Nutrition therapy
  • Naturopathic medicine
  • Spiritual Support
  • Chiropractic care
  • Chemotherapy
  • Radiation
  • Surgery
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Genetic Tumor Assessment

This doctor is treating cancer with hypothermia, an alternative therapy

Statistics

What do Other Countries Do?

metastatic breast cancer patients between 2000 and 2009

  • 79% of CTCA patients survived 1.5 years
  • only 57% of patients across the nation survived that long

So What's the Problem?

metastatic colon cancer patients between 2000 and 2009

  • Many people are opposed to integrating alternative medicine into the current system because they say...
  • 87% of CTCA patients survived 0.5 years
  • only 67% of patients across the nation survived for that long.

Mexico: offers biomedicine as well as sacred healing

Mount Everest Region: offers over 6 medical practices including biomedicine and popular medicine

Tibet: stopped offering Tibetan medicine but had to bring it back because of popular demand-also offers biomedicine

metastatic kidney cancer patients between 2000 and 2009

It's dangerous!

  • 68% of CTCA patients survived 0.5 years
  • only 53% of patients across the nation survived for at least that long
  • When in actuality, chemotherapy is much more dangerous that vitamin or nutrition suppliments
  • As long as any procedure, alternative or orothodox, is done correctly, it is safe

This system is working

It should be available for all illnesses

and offered to every patient

and these are just a few!

There are no limits when it comes to your health care

The Truth about Medicine in the US

Works Cited

What is medical pluralism?

  • The United States has access to amazing, life-saving medical technology

BUT

  • sometimes biomedicine is not the answer

AND

Callaghan, Michael Mather. Medical Pluralism on Mount Everest. Diss. University

of Alberta, 2006. PDF file.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Cancer Treatment Centers of America,

2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.

Cass, Hyla. "Ask Dr. Oz_Alternative Medicine, Pt. 3 _ The Dr.mp4." Online video

clip. YouTube, 15 Jan. 2010. Web, 30 Mar. 2014.

Fairchild-Fisher, Grace. "Hypothermia Treatment for Cancer." photograph. n.d.

Hypothermia Therapy. http://search.creativecommons.org/. Web. 01 Apr.

2014.

Finkler, Kaja. “Sacred Healing and Biomedicine Compared.” Medical

Anthropology Quarterly 8.2 (1994): 178-197. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.

Janes, Craig R. “The Transformations of Tibetan Medicine.” Medical Anthropology

Quarterly 9.1 (1995): 6-39. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.

Jones, Val. Science-Based Medicine. “Risks Associated with Complementary and

Alternative Medicine (CAM): A Brief Overview.” 7 May 2009. Web. 13 Mar.

2014.

  • it is rarely the only answer

Dr. Oz provides examples of biomedicine, alternative medicine and both combined

medical pluralism: the integration of alternative and complimentary medicines with orthodox medicine

examples: treating cancer with chemotherapy AND nutrition therapy

Medical Pluralism in the United States

What You Can Do

  • Don't accept "We have no other treatment options available" from your doctor
  • Stay educated about alternative and complimentary treatments
  • Seek out second opinions

And most importantly...

Don't lose hope; there is always an option

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