80% of Cancer Patients Use Alternative Therapies -- 50% Dont Tell Their Doctors. Author says growing distrust of doctors threatens lives.

While 80% of cancer patients use some alternative or complementary therapy, 50% don't tell their doctors. A two-time colon cancer survivor, alternative healer and author of Healing Through Love says the growing distrust of doctors threatens lives. She says "distrust" can be as deadly as cancer.

(EVERGREEN, CO (PRWEB) August 25, 2004 -- Cancer patients face enormous challenges when diagnosed and recent statistics show that 80% of cancer patients use some form of complementary or alternative therapy (www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=4144 of speech delivered at National Comprehensive Cancer Network symposium. From herbs like garlic to procedures including acupuncture, cancer patients seek all available means to heal. But studies show only 50% of patients tell their doctors.

Two-time colon cancer survivor, alternative practitioner and author of Healing Through Love, says Patients are secretly turning to alternative therapies because of a crisis in the doctor-patient relationship which may be costing people their lives. I almost died in order to learn that distrust" was as deadly as cancer."

Cancer was Marilyn Innerfelds wake-up call to the powerful distrust she felt toward doctors and traditional practitioners. In her work as an alternative practitioner, she now recognizes the growing movement toward alternative therapies as a blessing and curse. She says, It is a blessing that patients are taking more responsibility for their healing, but a curse that they are often doing it in isolation which complicates the healing process. It is time for patients, doctors and alternative practitioners to wake-up to the danger of judging one anothers healing approaches."

Marilyn Innerfeld is a two-time colon cancer survivor, certified hypnotherapist, trained in nutritional therapy and author of Healing Through Love (ISBN: 0-9711522-1-7, Healing Arts Publishing, September 2004, $15.95), in which she chronicles her own story as well as stories of many clients who faced powerful choices in order to heal. Five years ago, Innerfeld co-founded the Worldwide Center in Evergreen, Colo., a business providing personal growth workshops, alternative healing services and books to clients worldwide.

Some topics Innerfelds workshops and book discuss are:

•Do You Refuse to Go to the Doctor? Your Judgment Could Cost You Your Life

•Healer Dependency, Healer Abuse

•The Supplement" Suitcase -- Fact vs Fiction

The cornerstone of the The Centers work is the Expanded Living program. This program is offered as self-empowerment workshops, one-on-one teaching sessions, teleclasses and meditation groups that share an expanded life vision, powerful self-help tools and alternative healing techniques.