Cancer treatments are advancing and changing rapidly. Cancer patients are often faced with complicated protocols, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. These treatments are invaluable and can cure many cancers, especially if found early. Dr. Khalsa spends the necessary time reviewing patients’ nutritional status and their over-the-counter supplements. Advise on continued supplement use is based on the patient’s individual cancer treatment protocol.

Dr. Khalsa’s focus is on addressing “the whole person”.  Her goal is overall wellness for the patient with cancer, while the cancer is being treated in the patient.  Many patients seek out additional therapies to help them with side effects and stress associated with conventional treatment. Dr. Khalsa will work closely with your cancer doctors to ensure your safety. She treats many common side effects, such as changes in mood, nausea, fatigue, pain and bowel discomfort. Patient specific treatment plans will typically incorporate yoga, acupuncture, homeopathy, biopuncture, mindful-based stress reduction, and plant-based nutrition. 

Acupuncture: What is Acupuncture?

Homeopathy: What is homeopathy?

Plant-based remedies created by nature, and prescribed in dilute, non-toxic, doses. Specific medications and treatments are used when deemed safe and effective to treat side effects from the toxicity of chemotherapy and radiation.

Did you know? Over 65% of chemotherapy drugs are derived from natural products! These include alkylating agents, plant alkaloids, anti-metabolites, and anti-tumor antibiotics. (ChemoCare)

Alkylating agents: Melphalan, derived from mustard gas.

Plant Alkaloids: Vincristine, derived from the Madagascar flower.

                      Paclitaxel, derived from the Pacific Yew Tree.

Anti-Metabolites: Methotrexate, a folic acid antagonist (similar to a substance that naturally exists in our cells).

Anti-Tumor Antibiotics: Doxarubicin and Bleomycin, derived from streptomyces, a soil fungus.

Biopuncture: What is Biopuncture?

Mindful-Based Stress Reduction: What is MBSR?

Plant-Based Nutrition: What Should your nutrition consist of?

If you are interested in having an integrative physician on your cancer treatment team, Dr. Khalsa can help you through treatment, as well as into recovery and remission.