Category: Cancer

Revolutionizing Cancer Care: High Dose IV Vitamin C and Personalized Survivorship

Posted on February 17, 2025 By Dr. Michelle Niesley, ND, MS, FABNO As a naturopathic doctor who specializes in oncology, my passion is  to bridge the gap between ...

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Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Support the Unseen Face of Cancer

Posted on October 4, 2024 By Comica Shaw, MBA Some experiences remain invisible to the world and understood only by those who endure them. Breast cancer is one ...

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Navigating Supplements in Cancer Care: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers

Posted on October 4, 2024 By Dr. Stacy Dunn, ND, LAc, FABNO, FABORM Forward by Jasmin Murphy,B.H.A., ACE-CPT Navigating cancer care and survivorship comes with ...

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The Inflammation-Immune Association: Inhibiting Inflammation and Resuscitating The Immune System

Posted on August 14, 2024 By Dr. Kirsten West, ND, LAc, FABNO As a naturopathic doctor, one who works almost exclusively with cancer patients, there is a common ...

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Dietary Interventions to Support Skin Health: Recommendations Beyond Sunscreen

Posted on July 8, 2024 By Dr. Stacy Dunn, ND, LAc, FABNO, FABORM While sun protection remains paramount, growing evidence highlights the significant impact ...

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The Essence of Womanhood: Navigating Identity Through Cancer’s Lens

Posted on May 20, 2024 By Hayley Nelson, PhD Sitting across from me, a friend with the journey of cancer etched into the lines of her face, asked a question ...

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Celebrating Nels: A Journey of Resilince and Hope

Posted on April 10, 2024 In the spirit of hope and healing that defines our community, we shine a spotlight on an extraordinary individual whose journey ...

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Trauma, Cancer, & Disease

Posted on April 9, 2024 By Dr. Kirsten West, FABNO, LAc, FABNO Chronic, maladapted psychological and physiological patterns may play a larger role in disease ...

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‘Sugar and Cancer’ Presentation by Dr. Stacy Dunn

Posted on December 6, 2023 By Melody Spurney Riordan Clinic staff recently participated in a staff development presentation by Dr. Stacy Dunn, ND, Lac, FABNO, ...

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VA Adopts New Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening

Posted on November 3, 2023 By Dr. Stacy Dunn, ND, LAc, FABNO, FABORM In late July, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced new guidelines for breast ...

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Guidance about Foods for Cancer Patients

Posted on November 3, 2023 By Dr. Kirsten West, ND, LAc, FABNO In the years I have been in practice, it is clear that diet and nutrition are key factors in cancer ...

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Hope Beyond Diagnosis: A Mother of Four Recalls Her Cancer Journey

Posted on September 28, 2023 By Melody Spurney   Kelli Ann Rollins of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was a busy mom of four in the early summer of 2022. She was looking ...

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Reports Show that Early-Onset Cancer is on the Rise

Posted on September 7, 2023 A recent study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed a noticeable rise in early-onset cancer ...

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Avoid Toxins to Reduce Cancer Risk

Posted on February 1, 2023 By Dr. Lucas Tims, ND, FABNO Through the work of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and others, there are ...

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Maintain a Healthy Metabolism to Prevent Cancer

Posted on February 1, 2023 By Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD, CMO When it comes to cancer prevention, improved awareness of the risk factors that promote metabolic ...

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Cancer Survivor Makes Changes for Better Health

Posted on February 1, 2023 By: Melody Spurney As a busy mortgage loan officer, Lori Caldwell loves to work, and in early 2022, low mortgage rates kept her ...

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Food as Medicine: How a Metabolic Plan Can Elevate Your Health

Posted on January 3, 2023 By Dr. Kirsten West, ND, LAc, FABNO When I design a nutrition plan for my oncology patients, it is individualized based on their ...

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Nutrition Consultants Create Specialized Diets

Posted on January 3, 2023 By Jen Nolan, BS, MS, ONC A cancer diagnosis or a chronic illness can be overwhelming, and patients are often faced with a barrage of ...

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School Teaches Healthcare Providers About Nutrition

Posted on January 3, 2023 By Jess Higgins Kelley, MNT After working one-on-one directly with nutrition clients for years, I realized there was a significant gap ...

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Riordan Clinic Transforms Life for Two-Time Cancer Survivor

Posted on October 28, 2022 By Melody Spurney Jamie Bernard has found a community with more than 700 co-learners on Instagram after her second breast cancer ...

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Professor Grateful and Looks Forward After Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Posted on September 30, 2022 By: Melody Spurney As Meredith Trexler Drees rode with her husband, Jeff, to her family’s farm near Hill City, Kansas on the day of her ...

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Stress, Metabolic, and Hormonal Imbalances and Breast Cancer

Posted on September 30, 2022 By: Dr. Kirsten West, ND, LAc, FABNO When it comes to breast cancer, a variety of things can contribute to a diagnosis. Three common ...

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Environmental Toxins Can Contribute to Breast Cancer

Posted on September 30, 2022 By: Laura Vasquez, MSN, APRN, NP-C   When it comes to breast cancer, environmental toxins women encounter daily can play a role in ...

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Riordan Clinic Cancer Survivor Looks To Help Others

Posted on September 20, 2022 By Melody Spurney Amye Williamson’s last day of her extended treatment at the Riordan Clinic in Overland Park helped reinforce her ...

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What is UBI?

Posted on August 1, 2022 UBI – Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation – helps boost the immune system by exposing blood to ultraviolet light. In this procedure, 60 CCs ...

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Retired Nurse Finds Healing at Riordan Clinic After Cancer Diagnosis

Posted on July 15, 2022 By: Melody Spurney Denise Ober was settling into an active retirement in early 2020 after a nearly 50-year career in nursing, but she ...

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Steve Spencer Finds Help and Hope After Treatments

Posted on July 1, 2022 By: Melody Spurney Steve Spencer rolled his wheelchair into the Riordan Clinic in Overland Park in 2020 looking for help … and hope. He ...

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Terrain-Based Cancer Care Focuses on Whole Person

Posted on July 1, 2022 By: Melody Spurney The Riordan Clinic has a rich heritage of groundbreaking innovation in cancer care. Clinic co-founders Dr. Hugh ...

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Dr. Kirsten West Joins Riordan Clinic’s Integrative Oncology Team

Posted on July 1, 2022 By: Melody Spurney A difficult experience watching family members struggle with cancer inspired what would become a professional ...

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Colon Cancer in Young Adults

Posted on April 4, 2022 Author: Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD The star of the movie Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, died at age 43 of early-onset colon cancer after ...

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The Patient’s Power to Balance Hormones and Feel Better

Posted on February 11, 2022 Author: Jenny Bradley Have you ever had one of those days where the moodiness hits and it feels like you are the passenger in an ...

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The Benefits of Turkey Tail Mushroom in Cancer Treatment

Posted on October 19, 2021 Author: Laura Vasquez, MSN, APRN, NP-C “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food,” a well-known quote by Hippocrates that ...

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Breast Cancer Basics: Staging

Posted on October 19, 2021 Many people hear about the different stages of breast cancer and know that the higher the number, the more serious the case. But, what ...

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Getting Started with Anticancer Living

Posted on October 19, 2021 Author: Jenny Bradley Taking steps toward anticancer living can feel daunting. Emotions are already charged, energy feels quickly ...

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Breast Cancer: Risk Factors and Preventative Measures

Posted on October 19, 2021 Author: Lucas Tims, ND, FABNO Survivors, family members, friends, and even football teams sport the color pink during the month of ...

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Foods to Include in an Anti-Cancer Diet

Posted on May 7, 2021 Author: Jenny Bradley, M.A.I.L., CNE Did you know scholars propose only 5-15% of cancer is genetic?! Late medical doctor and ...

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Health Supporting Supplements for Cancer Care

Posted on January 15, 2021 Supplement regimens for all of our patients are carefully tailored to their individual needs. However, there are handful of supplements ...

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Mistletoe Therapy for Cancer Treatment

Posted on January 15, 2021 Did you know: The liquid extract of the Mistletoe plant has been used as an alternative method to treat cancer for close to a century? ...

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Spotlight on Breast Health and Early Screening for Breast Cancer

Posted on October 5, 2020 You may know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, but any time of year is a good time to focus on screening and prevention. ...

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Dr. Tims on the Chris Beat Cancer Podcast

Posted on September 2, 2020 Dr. Lucas Tims recently sat down with Chris Wark of Chris Beat Cancer. In this podcast interview, they discuss the pros and cons of ...

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IV Vitamin C for Cancer

Posted on September 2, 2020 The pharmacologic doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) have shown significant anticancer effects in animal models and tissue culture ...

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Keep Smiling: My Cancer Story

Posted on September 2, 2020 Meet Jared Adams, a remarkable 22-year-old who, after his own experience with cancer, was inspired to write a children’s book. Keep ...

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Have you ever wondered what you can do to help a friend diagnosed with Cancer?

Posted on September 2, 2020 Jenny Bradley can offer you some insight. Jenny is a Co-learner and advocate for holistic cancer care. She is also a cancer “Thriver.” ...

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Bridging the Gap in Cancer Care

Posted on September 2, 2020 Author: Lucas Tims, ND, FABNO Every day in America, nearly five thousand people hear the words, “You have cancer.” That phrase conjures ...

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Plant-Derived Supplement Shows Promise as a Natural Cancer-Fighter

Posted on June 3, 2020 Author: Lucas Tims, ND, FABNO Arum palaestinum, a perennial plant that produces a deep purple lily flower, has a long history of use as ...

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Patient Story: IV vitamin C During Chemo

Posted on February 24, 2020 Submitted by: Sally Bass Ph.D. I am an 82-year-old retired nurse with metastatic endometrial and cervical cancer.  I am using ...

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Clinical Research at the Riordan Clinic: Continuous Intravenous Vitamin C in the Treatment of Cancer

Posted on August 5, 2019 Author: Nina Mikirova, PhD The below summary is from a research article by Dr. Nina Mikirova, Director of Research at the Riordan ...

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Cancer-Related Fatigue

Posted on August 5, 2019 By Lucas Tims, ND, FABNO Cancer-Related Fatigue has been reviewed and updated from the original Health Hunters article Vol. 33 No. 8 in ...

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Vitamin C and Traditional Chemotherapy

Posted on March 26, 2019 Author: Annette Chlumsky, RN Originally Published: March 2016, Health Hunters Vol 30 No 4 Does nutritional therapy reduce the ...

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Fighting Cancer with Ancient Medicine: Mistletoe Therapy

Posted on October 15, 2018 By Lucas Tims, ND Mistletoe (Viscum album) is a poisonous, semi-parasitic plant that grows on various host trees native to Europe and ...

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IVC and the Riordan Approach to Adjunctive Cancer Care: 7 Key Questions

Posted on October 2, 2017 By The Riordan Clinic Provider Team IVC and the Riordan Approach to Adjunctive Cancer Care: 7 Key Questions has been reviewed and ...

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How the Circadian Rhythm Affects Sleep, Wakefullness, and Overall Health

Posted on June 1, 2017 By Dr. Nina Mikirova Life on earth has evolved under the daily rhythm of light and dark. Metabolic, physiological and behavioral ...

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Thermography: Safer and Earlier Detection of Breast Cancer

Posted on October 7, 2016 AUTHOR Annette Chlumsky, RN Thermography has been a controversial detection tool for breast cancer for quite some time. It has been ...

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The Sun Shines on Vitamin D

Posted on September 1, 2016 By Jack Challem, BA If recent research were a political election, vitamin D would win by a landslide. Over the past five years, more ...

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Sammy’s Very Sick

Posted on December 1, 2015 By Verne Harnish The following is an excerpt from a November 6th email titled “Verne’s Insights” and written by businessman and ...

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Patient Profile

Posted on September 24, 2014 More than 10 million people are currently living with cancer in the United States. Many factors beyond our control contribute to the ...

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The Fat Truth about Cancer and Obesity!

Posted on September 2, 2014 One study, using NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data, estimated that in 2007 in the United States, about 34,000 ...

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Obesity and the Risk of Cancer

Posted on September 1, 2014 By Nina Mikirova According to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, a BMI greater than or equal to 25kg/m2 is overweight, while ...

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Breast Cancer: Environmental Estrogen

Posted on October 1, 2011 By Jennifer Kaumeyer, N.D. October is breast cancer awareness month. Usually this is the month that all doctors, hospitals, clinics, ...

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Treating Cancer the Riordan Clinic Way

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. “… it takes much more than logic and clear-cut demonstrations to overcome the inertia and dogma of ...

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Do You Have a Family History of Breast Cancer?

Posted on October 1, 2010 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. One in three Americans will get cancer in their lifetime; one in four will die from it. Just thirty years ago, ...

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Mushrooms For Nutrition and Cancer Prevention

Posted on March 1, 2010 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. Mushrooms are unusually rich in both nutrients and unusual phytochemicals that likely have many health ...

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Vitamin C and Angiogenesis: New Research and New Mechanisms

Posted on March 1, 2009 By Dr. Joseph Casciari One of the keys to the growth and spread of solid tumors is a process of new blood vessel growth called ...

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A New Hypothesis of Cancer

Posted on February 1, 2007 By Xiaolong Meng, M.D. Current theories hold that cancers are abnormal tissues triggered by gene mutations. Standard cancer treatments ...

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RECNAC Cancer Research Update

Posted on March 2, 1999 By Joseph Casciari, Ph.D. The RECNAC project marked its 10th anniversary in February with a Lunch and Lecture presentation at The ...

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RECNAC Cancer Research Update

Posted on March 2, 1998 By Joseph Casciari, Ph.D. The RECNAC project marked its 9th anniversary in February with a “Lunch and Lecture” presentation ...

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RECNAC Cancer Research Update

Posted on March 2, 1997 By Joseph Casciari, Ph.D. The RECNAC project marked its 8th anniversary in February with a Lunch and Lecture presentation at The ...

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Seven Years of RECNAC Cancer Research

Posted on March 1, 1996 By Joseph Casciari, Ph.D. The RECNAC project marked its 7th anniversary in February with a Lunch and Lecture presentation by Dr. Hugh ...

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Phytochemicals – Plant Food Chemicals That Prevent Cancer

Posted on May 23, 1995 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. For over 100 years, “phytochemical” was an obscure, scientific word meaning “plant ...

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Pancreatic Cancer Research Expanded

Posted on March 23, 1995 Excerpts from a presentation by Hugh D. Riordan, M.D. The receipt of a $52,000 grant from the New York based Wallace Genetic Foundation ...

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