Patients who come for treatment at Akesis fall into four main groups:
1. Individuals in good health who wish to preserve their well-being and prevent cancer.
2. Patients who exhibit symptoms or lesions and want to prepare their physical and mental condition before undergoing diagnostic and treatment procedures at a hospital.
3. Cancer patients currently undergoing treatment who are seeking additional or alternative therapeutic options.
4. Patients in remission who have completed primary cancer treatment and seek to restore their health, address underlying issues, and prevent recurrence.
**Pillar 1: Conventional Medical Treatment**
The conventional approach to cancer diagnosis and treatment involves comprehensive evaluations and multi-disciplinary discussions among medical experts to establish a step-by-step care pathway. This includes screening, lab testing, and biopsies for accurate diagnosis and staging, followed by appropriate interventions such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, or immunotherapy. However, conventional treatments may not eliminate all cancerous roots. For instance, chemotherapy is effective in destroying actively dividing cancer cells, but may have limited effects on cancer stem cells, potentially leading to recurrence and drug resistance.
**Pillar 2: Multiple Targeted Therapy**
Cancer cells, by nature, develop various mechanisms that allow them to grow and evade destruction. These include promoting angiogenesis, inducing inflammation, altering energy metabolism, escaping immune surveillance, and spreading to distant organs. Modern medical science has uncovered many of these mechanisms, leading to the development of new drugs, repurposed medications, and the use of phytochemicals from medicinal plants to target multiple cancer pathways simultaneously. Advanced technology now allows for genetic profiling of tumor tissues and cancer stem cells detected in a patient’s bloodstream. This enables Precision Medicine, where treatments are tailored to the unique characteristics of the tumor.
**Pillar 3: Metabolic Cancer Therapy**
This emerging approach focuses on disrupting the unique energy metabolism of cancer cells. Based on cellular biology and biochemistry, researchers have discovered that as cancer stem cells divide and proliferate, their daughter cells often shift from using oxygen-based energy production (oxidative phosphorylation) to aerobic glycolysis, a process that consumes glucose more rapidly. This discovery has led to diagnostic advancements such as PET-CT scans and TKTL1 blood tests. Therapies include Metformin, Berberine, Insulin Potentiated Therapy (IPT), and Metronomic Chemotherapy, which uses low-dose drugs to minimize side effects, inhibit angiogenesis, and stimulate immune memory.
**Pillar 4: Integrative Immunotherapy**
Immunotherapy is a key pillar in cancer treatment. Weak immune function, combined with cancer cells’ ability to evade immune detection, is a central cause of cancer development. Medical research continues to explore drugs, herbs, and vaccines to enhance immune strength and inhibit cancer evasion. Checkpoint inhibitors, for example, are designed to help immune cells recognize and attack tumors. However, using such drugs alone has shown limited success due to the complex nature of immune regulation. A comprehensive approach includes nutritional therapy, herbal and peptide therapy, thymus extracts, and cell-based treatments. These strategies work together to strengthen white blood cells and train the immune system to recognize tumor-specific markers, such as through personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines.
**Pillar 5: Lifestyle Medicine for Cancer Management and Prevention**
**5.1 Detoxification**
Detoxification is a key component in lifestyle medicine to reduce oxidative stress, cellular damage, and chronic inflammation. Toxins are processed and eliminated through pathways involving the liver, lymphatic system, and gut. Support strategies include dietary adjustments, lymphatic stimulation, liver function support (e.g., with nutrients, phytochemicals, ozone therapy), chelation for heavy metals, and colon cleansing. Medical supervision is required due to potential Herxheimer reactions (temporary symptoms during detox). As toxin burden decreases, immunity improves.
**5.2 Nutrition**
A plant-rich diet supports immunity, reduces inflammation, and promotes recovery.
**5.3 Exercise**
Regular movement enhances circulation, lymph flow, and metabolic regulation.
**5.4 Mood and Emotional Support**
Mental and emotional care helps patients adapt and heal.
**5.5 Tumor Microenvironmental Therapy**
Therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), systemic hyperthermia, and gut microbiota balancing aim to make the tumor environment less supportive for cancer growth.
