Cancer therapy is one of the most controversial subjects in medicine, both within the medical community and among the general population. The accepted approaches of conventional medicine of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy offer help for some, but the sad fact is that in the last thirty years we have gone from one person in seven being diagnosed with cancer to one in three. Clearly, cancer therapy as practiced in the conventional medical community is "losing the war on cancer." This has not gone unnoticed by the general population. Because conventional medicine is perceived to be failing them, many are seeking alternative cancer treatment. They see that surgery is the less drastic procedure and chemotherapy and radiation have become the cancer treatment considered less promising and more harmful. Alternative cancer therapy attempts to replace chemotherapy and radiation as the backup to surgery. IRC considers that all cancer therapy has a place and therefore classifies itself as an integrative medicine clinic. 

Integrative medicine seeks to combine many aspects of conventional medicine with that of alternative medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, nutrition and naturopathic medicine. In cancer therapy IRC believes that rational use of all treatment modalities is possible and that the sequence with which the various modalities are employed is critical to maximize the cancer therapy. Thus, some forms of immune therapy actually sensitize the cancer cells to later chemotherapy and radiation treatment, while use of chemotherapy and radiation before immune therapy renders the immune therapy less effective. 

IRC is dedicated to bringing all useful therapy along in the fight against cancer. We may combine certain conventional drugs with alternative products in designing the best individualized treatment protocols for our patients. We maintain liaisons with clinic and research groups outside the United States where we may refer patients for therapy programs unavailable to us, such as Intra Arterial Therapy (IAT), or combined Intensity Modulated Radio Therapy (IMRT) and IAT.

IRC maintains a dedicated licensed and certified staff with full medical credentials.

The IRC clinic is based on the premise that an intact and functioning immune system is required to prevent chronic diseases such as cancer, and that such diseases cannot be reversed unless the compromised immune system is restored. When an impaired immune system exists it “misses” atypical cells that arise and that would normally be eliminated. The atypical cell is “allowed” to survive and progress to become a cancer. Therapies that only target the cancer (such as chemotherapy and radiation) and not the underlying causes too often lead to a short time remission of the disease. Thus the first aspect of  our clinic is immune recovery, the cornerstone of our program upon which we build our customized treatments.

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