Alternative Cancer Treatment Specialist Dr. William Flader Reports Positive Patient Outcomes, Growing Awareness of 'IPT' Approach to Cancer Care

Alternative Cancer Treatment Specialist Dr. William Flader reports on the effectiveness, status and growing patient awareness of Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) as a less-debilitating option for cancer care than traditional, high-dose chemotherapy.

Setauket, NY (PRWEB) January 10, 2009 -- According to Natural Health Alternatives Medical Director Dr. William Flader, "public awareness of the effectiveness of Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) as an alternative treatment for many kinds of cancer is growing throughout the US. This is good news for cancer patients who for the most part are of the opinion that there is only one effective means of treating cancer."

Speaking on the occasion of the first anniversary of the founding of his alternative cancer treatment center in Setauket (Long Island), New York and the concurrent launch of his website, http://www.IPT-Health.com, Dr. Flader went on to state that ". . . IPT will eventually find its place as an established alternative in the fight against cancer, because the overwhelming majority of patients receiving IPT are experiencing clinical outcomes that are at the very least comparable to those being achieved by oncologists."

Dr. Flader then presented a five-point assessment of the current status of this novel treatment:
   
"1. The physicians who make up the IPT community have a strong sense of unity and purpose and a growing body of experience with positive outcomes for patients with many types of cancer at various stages of their development.
   
"2. Efforts are underway within the IPT community to create a more unified and systematic database of treatment information and to conduct formal clinical trials. These activities would benchmark our work, crystallize our findings and provide the kinds of scientific data that would be would be a very welcome development for IPT practitioners as well as for the entire medical community.
   
"3. With only a handful of treatment centers in the domestic USA and only two (including Dr. Flader's center, National Health Alternatives, in Setauket, NY) in the Northeast, we need to encourage the creation of more IPT treatment facilities in order to be able to respond to growing patient awareness and needs. We're fortunate to have a formal IPT certification process that is helping our community grow in an orderly way. But we have a very long way to go before we reach critical mass.
   
"4. Aside from the uniqueness of IPT itself, what distinguishes this approach from conventional cancer therapy is the emphasis placed on lifestyle change as a long term initiative against cancer. Adoption of a healthy patient lifestyle is a significant key to the successful treatment and prevention of cancer. In my practice, for example, while IPT is the core treatment, we address the "prevention" issue proactively by prescribing a precise pattern of treatments -- unique to each patient -- that reduces levels of heavy metals, addresses vitamin deficiencies, improves dietary habits, replaces essential hormones, increases blood oxygen levels and detoxifies living cells.
   
"5. Finally, we need to make it clear to our potential patients that with IPT the treatment for cancer is not worse than the disease. This is what sets IPT apart from traditional cancer therapy. The very low doses of chemotherapy drugs (90% less in most cases) that we use to effectively treat cancer cause very little toxicity and minimal side effects.
   
"When employing this 'low-dose' approach to chemotherapy, insulin and chemotherapy agents are combined in such a way that a patient's cancer treatment can proceed with far less damage to the immune system and other non-cancerous tissues. The sickness and debilitation usually associated with chemotherapy -- vomiting, anemia, sluggishness, low energy level, hair loss and increased susceptibility to diseases and infections -- are greatly reduced, meaning that the majority of patients undergoing treatment can do so with minimal disruption to their normal lives."
   
A board certified Family Physician with over 20 years experience as an emergency physician, Dr. Flader was first drawn to non-traditional therapies by a dilemma he faced in emergency rooms almost daily. "Hospital emergency rooms are a showcase for the failures of our current approach to the treatment and prevention of disease. Far too many ER patients are people who were followed closely by their doctors, who took their medications and adopted the procedures outlined for them by their doctors, but who wound up in the hospital, anyway. That so much effort could have been made with such disappointing results told me over and over that there was something missing in our system of medical practice, a flaw in our approach. That is when I began to seek alternatives."
   
Over the course of his search for a less frustrating treatment methodology, Dr. Flader found that combining the best of holistic and traditional medical practice was the most sensible and beneficial approach. "I feel that IPT is a perfect example of this approach -- two traditional medicines combined in a new way, supported by a group of holistic therapies that are only now beginning to gain acceptance within the realm of traditional medical practice. This way of combining the traditional with the non-traditional is what we mean by 'Complementary Medicine.'"
   
Treating cancer patients with IPT has been a tremendous source of satisfaction and motivation for Dr. Flader and his staff at Natural Health Alternatives.
   
"We experience a very special set of emotional bonuses in our work with IPT. These occur as a result of the ways we're able to give our patients their lives back. We help them to put their disease into retreat at the same time that their color, vigor, vitality, appetites and sense of enjoyment are being restored. When our patients rather quickly begin to feel well enough again that they experience simple pleasures, notice subtleties in their surroundings, interact with family and friends, laugh, and resume their vocations rather than just focus on coping with their disease, then we know we've accomplished something very special and that our treatment is moving them in the right direction."
   
Dr. Flader attributes this to the fact that IPT is a "much gentler regime" than traditional chemotherapy, "inflicting less collateral damage" to tissues and cells, enabling those tissues and cells to progress more rapidly and spontaneously through their natural recovery processes.    
   
For more information about Natural Health Alternatives, Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT), supportive therapies and other treatment alternatives, as well as staff biographies and answers to common cancer-treatment issues and questions, visit the Natural Health Alternatives website at http://www.IPT-Health.com. Included on the site is a PowerPoint presentation authored by Dr. Flader which goes into more detail about how and why IPT works.

Dr. William Flader, Medical Director of Natural Health Alternatives, PLLC, has been Board Certified by the American Academy of Family Practice since 1986, and has been a practicing Emergency Physician for over two decades. In 1999, Dr. Flader began to pursue an interest in Complementary Medicine, combining the best of traditional and alternative medicine in a Family Practice setting. Most recently, Dr. Flader was trained and certified in Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) by Dr. Steven Ayre. This enhancement to his treatment capabilities has made it possible for him to dramatically improve the quality of the lives of the cancer patients he treats in his Setauket, NY office.

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