What is Holistic Cancer Care?
Holistic cancer care focuses on treating you as a whole person, not just the disease. The goal of my holistic cancer care program is to offer supportive and complementary natural options that enhance the effectiveness of traditional cancer treatments while optimizing your health to promote healing and well-being throughout your cancer journey. Completely healing from cancer involves the body, mind, and spirit working together to return to a place of balance and health.
The main principles of my program are:
A Patient Centered Focus: Treatments and guidance tailored to each patient's unique needs, considering their overall health and lifestyle.
Holistic Complementary Care: Acupuncture, herbal medicine, functional medicine, and mindfulness practices. The goal is to provide a comprehensive treatment plan that addresses all aspects of the patient's current physical and emotional health, alleviates side effects and enhances recovery.
Empowerment: By providing holistic options, I help empower patients by providing education and the opportunity to play an active role in their cancer healing journey.
A SOLID INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE WITH A HOLISTIC APPROACH
When we are faced with the possibility of cancer, all treatment and prevention options should be explored. The convential medicine approach to cancer treatments are often effective, but also harmful to the body in the process and leave people with little understanding of what to do next. Cancer does not occur in a vacuum, but rather develops in a person’s body under certain physiological conditions. These conditions are specific to each person, and treatment and prevention approaches should also be personalized to each person.
Conventional cancer treatments do not consider:
-What pre-existing conditions lead to my cancer?
-How can I support my body during treatment?
-How can I manage the emotions and stress that accompany my cancer diagnosis?
-What can I do to prevent this cancer from re-occurring?
-How can I live my life to minimize my risk of developing cancer based on my genetics?
How I Can Help You:
By blending my doctoral expertise in cancer immunology and my extensive studies in Classical Chinese Medicine and herbal medicines I create a truly unique and a one-of-a-kind approach to integrative cancer care for my patients.
I spent 15 years working in the cancer research field before returning to school to study Classical Chinese Medicine (see below for more info). I made this career re-orientation because I realized the Western medical approach to cancer care is too focused on the problem and is missing the critical pieces to actually support people to heal from or prevent future cancer occurrence.
Focusing on each person as an individual and designing a care plan based on your body’s unique terrain is how I support your journey with cancer.
MY APPROACH & 6-MONTH PROGRAM
My approach is to address your physical health issues while also exploring the underlying energetic root causes of your cancer. In my 6-month program, your first tele-health session with me is an in-depth clinical history and lifestyle assessment followed by recommendations for a personalized blend of custom herbal medicine, lifestyle and dietary recommendations, functional medicine and guided self-inquiry to facilitate a transformation in every level of your health and wellbeing. I combine 15+ years of ongoing ceremonial plant medicine work with my extensive background in allopathic medicine to offer a truly unique and holistic perspective on cancer care and your healing process.
6-Month Cancer Care Program
Why you would choose to work with me?
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Very few holistic medicine providers can also say they worked directly in cancer research. I bring my 15 years of experience studying the biological process of cancer and its evasion of the immune system to my holistic practice to create a one-of-a-kind blend of Eastern Medicine and Western Medicine.
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Western medical treatments do not address the underlying health of the whole person during treatment or consider that optimum health of all systems of the body is essential to any effective treatment. I bring the perspective of the time-tested tradition of Chinese medicine to help inform how to help restore your body and assist with cancer clearance or prevention.
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I intentionally maintain a small practice so that I can offer each patient my most valuable resource, my attention and time. Capturing the full complexity of a person’s health journey takes time, something rarely offered in hurried office visits with most western physicians.
Jeff Pufnock MSOM ph.d L.ac.
Integrative Cancer Care & Cancer Prevention
ABOUT MY TRAINING:
I received my Ph.D in Immunology from Thomas Jefferson University and completed my post-doctoral studies at the prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington where I helped develop state-of-the-art immunotherapies for patients with advanced cancers. While continuing my immunotherapy work at Seattle Chidrens, I realized that while our therapies were helping to treat cancer in some patients, success was limited and we were only treating the disease at the very end stage. I desired to approach the paradigm of cancer treatment from a more holistic approach and focus on treating the beginnings of the disease process.
This approach led me to step away from my scientific studies and embark on a second life journey to study Chinese Medicine in the 4-year program of Classical Chinese Medicine at National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon with an in-depth 3 year apprenticeship in Chinese Herbal medicine with Brian McMahon, L.Ac.
Explore Jeff’s full bio & professional trainings here
MY MODALITIES FOR TELEHEALTH:
Chinese & Western Herbalism, Functional Medicine based supplementation, Lifestyle Coaching, Dietary Recommendations, Self-inquiry, Breathwork,
Testimonials
“Jeff has done an excellent job using traditional Chinese medicine to compliment western medical techniques in the treatment of low-grade prostate cancer. For the past two years I have been under active surveillance to monitor the progress of the tumor. Concurrently Jeff has developed for me a dynamic treatment plan based on herbs, diet modification and acupuncture. His approach has made me feel better physically and most importantly I feel empowered because I am doing something proactive to combat the disease. G.T.”
“Jeff was a well timed resource in my healing journey after receiving a cancer diagnosis in early 2022. Jeff was patient in gathering all the details relative to what I was experiencing. He was mindful with his approach to best compliment what I needed most week to week. He was able to help shift energy and target areas of dis-ease through acupuncture, sound, heat, cranial sacral, and herbal supplementation. His ability to set a positive intention for his patients and put that into practice was remarkable. Whoever is fortunate enough to discover his work is blessed.”
6-Month Cancer Care Program
This program was created as a result of witnessing the ability of a truly holistic approach to cancer care ensure better health and better quality of life. My goal is to offer a comprehensive continuum of care for you during our time together and help you promote a tangible shift in the health of your body, mind and sprit by the completion of your program.
Who is this program for?
People who currently have cancer, those undergoing treatment or those post-treatment who desire a guided integrative approach to treat their cancer and reduce the risks of recurrence.
Those who are high risk for cancer who would like ways to reduce their cancer risk, ensure longevity and to prevent cancer in the future
How it will help you?
There is so much that can be done to compliment and enhance ongoing conventional medical cancer treatments. Using personalized herbal and supplement recommendations together with lifestyle adjustments we work together support your current cancer treatments and establish a better future health outlook.
My goal is to offer a comprehensive continuum of care for you throughout your cancer journey and provide a tangible shift in the health of your body, mind and sprit by the completion of your time with me.
