Integrative Cancer Therapy

Integrative cancer therapy services offered in Buffalo, NY

Cancer and its treatment affect your physical and emotional well-being. Integrative cancer therapy helps build resilience and allows you to feel more in control of your health. The team at OWM Integrative Wellness in Buffalo, New York, provides integrative cancer therapy to support clients through their cancer care journey. Dr. Leonard Kaplan, DO, is an integrative cancer specialist and a graduate of the Metabolic Terrain Institute Approach to Cancer fellowship, which focuses on a metabolic approach to the “why, what and how” surrounding cancer. Integral to the program is a deep dive into what caused the cancer to grow and how best to support its prevention, both of which are critical to improving treatment outcomes. Dr. Kaplan is also board-certified in Physical Medicine and Pain Medicine and is trained through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) which is dedicated to the advancement of healthcare technologies and transformations that can combat chronic diseases associated with aging. Dr. Kaplan is involved with a multitude of forward-looking organizations intent on improving the experience of people and families living with and surviving cancer. Call the office to find out more, or request a consultation online.

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Integrative Cancer Therapy and Metabolic Support by OWM offers a comprehensive approach to cancer that provides direct anti-cancer therapy, comprehensive metabolic support, immune and cellular resilience, brain health, and mental well-being optimization.

We have assembled a comprehensive team of medical professionals, cancer advocate specialists, and integrative nutritional and psychotherapeutic, and yoga.

Specialists to support our cancer patients through this challenging journey in the most comprehensive way possible.

Comprehensive Integrative Cancer Support in Buffalo, New York

OWM Integrative Wellness supports clients that are in the early stages of diagnosis and those that are currently undergoing targeted chemo and radiation therapy. Our mission is to improve an individual’s resilience, improve or restore mind-body wellness and offer natural targeted therapeutics to weaken cancer cells. Dr. Leonard Kaplan, DO is board certified in Physical Medicine and Pain Medicine and is trained through A4M (American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) in Integrative Medicine and is a graduate of a Metabolic Terrain Institute Metabolic Approach to Cancer fellowship, allowing for a deeper dive into the “why” of cancer and how best to support its prevention and improve outcomes.

Integrative Cancer Therapy and Support is designed to treat multiple aspects of cancer care, including:

Anxiety Depression

Brain Fog and fatigue Gut health

Sleep restoration and optimization Immune resilience

Solid tumor size and burden reduction Reduction of chemotherapy and radiation-related toxicities and complications

Improvement of tumor sensitivity to targeted chemotherapy and radiation

Treatment plans are both extensive and comprehensive. The typical program consists of two six weeks of aggressive intervention sessions, followed by a customized maintenance program.

What is cancer therapy?

Cancer therapy includes complementary therapies for client with cancer, easing not only the physical but also the emotional side effects caused by the disease and the accompanying procedures, medications, and therapies.

OWM Integrative Wellness provides comprehensive and holistic integrative cancer therapy to optimize metabolic support, immune and cellular resilience, brain health, and mental well-being.

Who benefits from cancer therapy?

The OWM Integrative Wellness team offers cancer therapy for clients in the early stages of their diagnosis and those currently undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

You may benefit from OWM’s integrative cancer therapy if you’re experiencing any of the following because of your cancer:

Anxiety

Depression

Brain fog Fatigue

Toxicities and complications from chemotherapy or radiation therapy Sleep problems

You may also benefit from integrative cancer therapy at OWM Integrative Wellness if you’re looking for interventions that may boost your resilience and help you improve how your body responds to your traditional cancer treatments.

Supportive Intravenous Therapy

IV therapy aims to improve nutritional health by administering essential amino acids, vitamins, and nutrients.

The team offers IV nutrition therapies such as alpha lipoic acid (ALA) and glutathione – powerful antioxidants that boost the body’s ability to fight off cancer

Targeted Body Hyperthermia with Thermafield

Targeted Body Hyperthermia is performed with our Thermafield radiofrequency device that elevates internal temperature of a targeted cancer tissue to 113 degrees Fahrenheit or 45 degrees Celsius.. This initiates a chain of chemical reactions that improves the body’s immune resilience, reduces inflammation and directly weakens cancer cells. This localized hyperthermia therapy can be applied to any solid tumors, to include gastric, liver, breast, prostate and lung. In addition to its direct anti-tumor effects, regional hyperthermia also complements traditional treatments of chemotherapy and radiation therapy by enhancing its effect and sensitizing the tumor to those treatments. As previously noted, several countries already refer to this type of treatment as the 4th pillar of treatment along with chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. The team at OWM Integrative Wellness uses targeted hyperthermia to assist with reducing your tumor’s activity and size, potentially making it easier for surgical removal.

Mistletoe Therapy

Mistletoe contains compounds that promote tumor cell death and inhibit tumor growth.

Nutritional Therapy

It is well known that eliminating sugar from one’s diet helps starve cancer. The team at WM may recommend the ketogenic diet as part of the cancer therapy plan with the ultimate goal of getting your body into the state of ketosis. This diet inhibits cancer cell growth and weakens the cancer cells by depriving them of their preferred energy source: glucose.

Mind-body Therapy

The OWM Integrative Wellness team also provides mind-body therapy, reducing stress through meditation and breath work at the brain spa. Utilizing virtual reality or brainwave sensing band guided meditation is encouraged during every OWM visit.

Intravenous Ketamine

IV ketamine at OWM Integrative Wellness eases the psychological symptoms caused by cancer, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathic medicine for cancer therapy is the use of botanical and herbal medicines to reduce inflammation, improve natural detoxification, and support immune health.

Cancer therapy at OWM Integrative Wellness is comprehensive and supportive. Call or request your consultation online today.

High Dose Vitamin C Intravenous Therapy

Research shows that in high doses Vitamin C provides the body with a powerful antioxidant that has the ability to protect cells and free radical damage. High Dose Vitamin C is administered intravenously in a range of 25-100 grams. Due to its molecular similarity to a glucose molecule, it is injected into cancer cells that, unlike normal cells, are unable to process the vitamin. This creates cancer cell weakening and the death of the cancer cell.

High Dose Ozone Therapy

Developed by Dr. Lahodny in Austria, high dose Ozone therapy is used intravenously and as an intra-tumoral injection to directly target regional and circulating tumor cells. It has been shown to improve cellular antioxidant strength, oxygenation, and energy production. As an oxidative therapy, there is also some evidence that it can contribute to inhibiting cancer growth and metabolic activity.

Hyperbaric Oxygen
(Coming to OWM in 2023)

There is clinical evidence that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can both enhance the efficacy of conventional cancer therapy and reduce its side effect burden.

Low Level Laser Interstitial Therapy (Intra-tumoral)

Low Level Laser therapy is used as an intravenous infusion,transcutaneous irradiation and an intra-tumoral injection therapy. When combined with natural photosensitizing substances this therapy can directly target tumor cells.

Low level Laser Photodynamic IV Therapy

Our advanced system allows for placement of a fiberoptic laser catheter into a vein. This is used to both directly target circulating tumor cells and activate our cancer targeting and immune building infusions.

Total Body Hyperthermia

Total Body Low Level Hyperthermia is performed in a special dome sauna, where core temperature is raised above 103-degrees Fahrenheit. This initiates a chain of chemical reactions that improves the body’s immune resilience, reduces inflammation and directly weakens cancer cells. Integrative cancer therapy can be applied locally at a fixed point or in a generalized manner to complement traditional treatments of chemotherapy and radiation therapy to enhance its effect and sensitize the tumor to those treatments. Several countries already refer to this type of treatment as the 4th pillar of treatment along with chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. The team at OWM Integrative Wellness uses targeted hyperthermia to assist with reducing your tumor’s activity and size, potentially making it easier for surgical removal.

SonoCiné

Our state of the art robotic controlled whole breast ultrasound is used to monitor breast tumor size during therapeutic interventions and as an accurate surveillance tool when our clients are in remission.

Prenuvo MRI

This advanced MRI technology allows for both surveillance when in remission and for monitoring of cancer size and metastatic activity during treatment. It is twice as fast as a traditional MRI and does not require use of any contrast agents.

Signatera

This DNA blood test accurately matches any found circulating cancer cells to the cancer type found in your tumor biopsy. It is used to monitor effectiveness of therapy and surveillance for recurrence.

Signatera blood tests can pick up cancer recurrence 9 months before traditional imaging.