integrative cancer care

Providing safe and effective options for combining cancer treatment with natural therapies

How We Can Help

Chances are if you’re here, you’ve been impacted by cancer and are looking for additional support. For anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, or whose loved one has been diagnosed with cancer, information comes fast and the questions can be overwhelming. What is my chance of survival? What will be used to treat my cancer? How effective will treatment be? Can I be cured? How will I feel during treatment? Do I have to have chemotherapy? Will surgery cure my cancer? Can I still work? What about my family? How can I reduce the risk of this cancer coming back again? 

If you’re looking to ways to take control of your health and feel well in your daily life, whether you’ve been newly diagnosed, are facing a recurrence, or are living with cancer, you’re in the right place. Our team is here to provide you with a personalized, realistic support plan that’s safe with your conventional treatments.

Cancerous & Precancerous Conditions We Commonly Support

• Breast Cancer

• Ovarian Cancer

• Uterine / Endometrial Cancer

• Cervical Cancer + Cervical Dysplasia

• Prostate Cancer

• Bladder Cancer

• Colorectal Cancer

• Melanoma

• Brain Cancer

• Esophageal Cancer

• Head + Neck Cancer

• Lung Cancer

• Kidney Cancer

• Stomach Cancer

• Liver Cancer

• Pancreatic Cancer

• Bone Cancer

• Leukemia

• Lymphoma

• Multiple Myeloma

• Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

Wherever you are in your cancer journey, our team will meet you where you’re at and take the time to look at everything in detail, helping you to feel in control and comfortable in your body again. Our clinic has a focus on integrative cancer care specifically, and our team has undergone additional training in integrative oncology, to ensure you’re getting the best care possible. Our ultimate goal is always to support overall survival, minimize side-effects of treatment, and improve your quality of life both during and after treatment.

What is Integrative Cancer Care?

Integrative cancer care helps to support anyone who has received a precancerous or cancer diagnosis, has a strong family history of cancer, or is a cancer survivor. Whether you are looking for support while you undergo surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, or you need more aggressive natural therapies to target your cancer directly, we will ensure you have a full understanding of treatment options available to you, so you can make choices you feel comfortable with.

What To Expect

No matter where you’re at in your cancer journey, we work with your specific cancer diagnosis to reduce the damaging effects of cancer treatment, reduce symptoms that are affecting your daily life, and support your body’s ability to heal. We’re focused on providing safe and effective care so you can make choices you feel confident about. That’s why we created the Conquering Cancer Program.

PHASE 1: Your Diagnosis

• Target your cancer. We dig into the details of your diagnosis to  develop a customized protocol that directly targets your cancer cells, because not all cancer cells act the same.

• Lower inflammation. Not only is cancer inflammatory but your immune system’s response to cancer cells creates more inflammation that eventually starts to damage your body.

• Prepare your body. By establishing a baseline using our symptoms questionnaire we are then able to set you up with the foundations of health you need most (diet, lifestyle, etc).

PHASE 2: Cancer Treatment Period

If You’re Undergoing Treatment

• Support your specific treatment regimen. This may include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, etc, and is designed to ensure two things:

  • That treatment is as effective as it can be

  • That we help reduce the risk or severity of common side-effects, so you can feel as well as possible through treatment (monitored through testing and our side-effect questionnaire)

• Build up your immune system. Your immune system has been in overdrive since your diagnosis, trying to attack and kill cancer cells, which is why we not only help your immune system by lowering inflammation but rebalance your immune function during treatment to prevent complications. 

If You’ve Completed Treatment

• Treatment review. We review your treatment in detail, discussing how you felt, any complications that came up, and how you’re feeling right now (review test results and utilize our side-effect questionnaire)

• Urgent support. We set you up with a focused treatment protocol to address any urgent concerns, and move right into phase 3

PHASE 3: Recovery + Post-Cancer Prevention

This is where we get to talk not only about surviving but thriving again! We look at preventing a cancer recurrence, while also focusing on your healing, and set you up with care that brings the focus back to supporting life and any other health goals you may have for yourself, knowing that we’re always keeping your cancer history in mind so you don’t have to. 

• Target lingering side-effects. Start by treating any side-effects that you are still struggling with from treatment or symptoms of the cancer itself

• Restore immune system function. One of the big concerns in anyone affected by cancer, especially if they’ve been through treatment, is a weakened immune system. So this is the time when we actively rebuild it, to help strengthen immunity so you have a lower risk of infection going forward. 

• Rebuild your gut. Majority of your immune system is actually located IN your gut, so helping to rebalance your microbiome is a key part of maintaining a strong and healthy immune system. Here we not only care for your microbiome but heal any damage in your gut to reduce digestive problems you may be experiencing. 

• Identify barriers to healing. Now that you’ve gone through the foundational areas of health and healing in the midst of cancer, you may find that stubborn problems or side-effects have not gone away. Focused testing is what will help to determine the reason for this and allow us to address any lingering imbalances, to help you get back to living well. We can then focus your treatment protocol on preventing a recurrence of your cancer.

How it Works

• 2 hour initial appointment

• 4 week follow-up appointment

• 6 week follow-up appointment

• Custom schedule, adjusted to fit your life and treatments

• Biannual Thrive visits to ensure you remain supported

At The Clara Clinic we promise to provide you with balanced, realistic, individualized support that will actually work with your conventional treatments. We recognize that every patient and situation is going to be different, so we spend extra time with you, collaborate with your oncologists, and stay up-to-date on current research to ensure your treatment is as current and customized your situation as possible.

If you’ve been affected by breast cancer and want to learn more about integrative breast cancer care, we offer complimentary 15 minute consults with our Naturopathic Doctors focusing on integrative oncology, Dr. Hayhlee Clarence, ND or Dr. Monica Velletri, ND.