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Cancer treatment options and Tests to aid recovery

What are my cancer treatment options?

Your oncologist can only offer Conventional Treatments like chemo and radiation at your local cancer centre. However, you have many other options – Complementary Therapies, Alternative Treatments, and Integrative Treatments. They are all featured here.


TESTS (Can help identify best treatment or monitor progress)

Complementary Cancer Therapies

A range of therapies, products, and strategies that are used in addition to standard or alternative cancer treatments.

In this 2019 Study a Systematic Review reported 12 out of 57 (21%) trials reported beneficial aspects of complementary therapies on the OVERALL SURVIVAL of cancer patients.

It also reported significant benefits for Quality of Life, Pain, and Depression.

Numerous Complementary therapies are feature on these pages:

Alternative Cancer Treatments

While Alternative cancer treatments are generally used in place of Conventional treatments such as chemo and radiation, some are now becoming standard of care. (i.e. HIFU and Mistletoe Therapy).

Alternative treatments offer the only hope for some patients, especially those for whom conventional treatments have failed to offer any benefit. They include:
Antineoplastons 
Budwig Protocol
Cell Suppression Theory Treatment Protocol
Cannabis Oil
Care Oncology Protocol
Ivermectin, Fenbendazole and Mebendazole
Gerson Therapy
The Gonzalez Protocol
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
Hoxsey Diet Therapy
Insulin Potentiation Therapy
Jane McLelland Off Label Drugs for Cancer 
Joe Tippens Protocol 
Laetrile 
Mistletoe Therapy
Mitochondrial Metabolic Theory Treatment Protocol
Oncolytic Virotherapy
Radiofrequency Ablation
Sono-Photo Dynamic Therapy

See full details on Alternative Cancer Treatments page.

Integrative Cancer Treatments

Integrative Oncology is a holistic and patient-centred approach to cancer care. It uses both conventional treatments such as chemo and surgery and complementary therapies such as Mistletoe therapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

See full list of Clinics offering Integrative Treatments

Online Prescriptions

Note: Cancer Ireland does not accept advertising and has no relationship with the services listed here – they are provided solely as a helpful guide for patients.

Dixon Chemist in the UK
Will supply Low Dose Naltrexone and other cancer medicines as well as providing consultations and prescriptions.

Buying from suppliers that do not post to Ireland
You can have some items sent to An Post postal addresses in the UK and in the US. They are then forwarded on to your address in Ireland.

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Clinics offering supportive therapies to cancer patients.

Crescent Moon Therapy Rooms
Unit 4 Johnstown Business Park
Waterford City.
Phone: Carmel 087 6386364
Email: carmelhogan12@gmail.com
Website:crescentmoontherapy.com

Therapies offered include:

The following is from their website:
The EESystem promotes wellness, healing, relaxation, purification and rejuvenation. This ecologically & environmentally safe system is used by individuals, doctors, and therapists as well as Meditation and Wellness Centers to improve human development and psychological well-being. The EESystem works on a quantum level with the bio-active energy fields through scalar waves that can allow cells to regenerate by detoxifying the body while improving the immune system and balancing the yin-yang within the body.


Drummartin Clinic
3 Drummartin Road,
Goatstown, Dublin 14
D14 K0T9
Website: Drummartin Clinic
Email: reception@drummartinclinic.ie
Landline: +353 1 296 5993

The following is from their website:
We work co-operatively alongside your G.P and/or consultant and blend standard and complementary medicine, ensuring that you receive the benefits of both medical systems. We avoid recommending treatments that may conflict with your prescribed medicines. Hopefully with help from all of us in Drummartin Clinic, good doctor-patient teamwork and you, also, working to help yourself, your life will, once more, be enjoyable and productive. 


Richard Rocker Clinic for Functional Health
Unit 8, Westgate Business Park,
Ennis, Co Clare V95 FY71
Website: rockerclinic.com
Email: richard@rockerclinic.com
Phone: +353 (0) 86 177 4873

The following is from their website:
Dr Richard Rocker has been in clinical practice for over 30 years. He is certified in Functional Medicine, Massage, Shiatsu, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Acupuncture, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, Personal Training, Nutrition, Phlebotomy, Genomics, Blood Chemistry Analysis, Homeoprophylaxis, and Eastern Medicine, which taught him to see the body from a holistic perspective. Dr. Richard Rocker has received his Bachelor’s in Holistic Health Science and Doctorate and Ph.D. in Integrative and Natural Medicine and utilizes his Integrative approach to helping people at all levels of their being.


Remember, the question is not “How do I get rid of cancer”
but rather “How do I stop making cancer”

Dr. Thomas Lodi, Integrative Oncology

See also: Latest Treatments being studied for cancer

Updated January 2025

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