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Comprehensive Wellness: Embracing Mind, Body, and Spirit with Personalized Care.
A New Way to Fight Cancer:
Integrative oncology is a holistic approach to cancer care that combines traditional treatments like chemotherapy and surgery with complementary therapies such as nutrition, acupuncture, and mindfulness. This approach focuses on treating not just the cancer but the whole person—body, mind, and spirit. The goal is to support your overall well-being during and after cancer treatment, ensuring that your care is as comprehensive and personalized as possible.
Why It Matters:
Cancer treatment can be challenging, bringing physical and emotional stress. Integrative oncology addresses these challenges by helping you manage side effects and improve your quality of life. By combining the best of conventional medicine with evidence-based natural therapies, integrative oncology helps you feel better, stay stronger, and maintain a positive outlook throughout your cancer journey.
At Arka Health, we take a unique approach to cancer care by combining the latest medical treatments with natural therapies that support your overall well-being. Our integrative oncology care includes personalized nutrition plans, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and stress management, all designed to work alongside your conventional cancer treatments. What makes us different is our focus on treating the whole person—body, mind, and spirit. We’re here to help you not just fight cancer, but to feel stronger and healthier throughout your journey.
Digging Deep: We start by learning everything we can about your health—your history, lifestyle, genetics, and even your stress levels. This helps us find out what might be causing the cancer in the first place.
Getting the Diagnosis Right: With this information, we can make a more accurate diagnosis. This is key to creating a treatment plan that’s just right for you.
Nutritious Eating: We guide you to eat foods that are rich in nutrients and help fight cancer. Think of it as fueling your body to help it heal.
Detoxing: We also help your body get rid of harmful toxins that might be making the cancer worse, using gentle detox methods that support your liver and other organs.
Boosting Defenses: We use natural therapies, like herbs and supplements, to help your immune system better recognize and fight cancer cells.
Keeping Balance: We make sure your immune system stays balanced, so it fights the cancer without causing too much inflammation in your body.
Mind-Body Connection: Stress and emotions affect your health, so we include practices like meditation, yoga, and counseling to help you stay calm and focused.
Emotional Support: We’re here to support you emotionally, helping you manage stress and stay positive during your treatment.
Combining Treatments: Along with regular cancer treatments, we use advanced therapies like oxygen therapy and IV nutrients to boost your recovery.
Ongoing Care: We don’t just give you a plan and leave it at that. We keep a close eye on your progress and make changes as needed to ensure you’re on the best path to recovery.
| Aspect | Conventional Medicine | Integrative & Functional Medicine at Arka Health |
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| Focus | Disease-Centered: Focuses mainly on treating the illness with drugs and surgery | You-Centered: Treats your whole body, mind, and spirit with a personalized approach |
| Your Role | Passive: You follow the doctor’s instructions | Active: You’re involved in creating your own treatment plan |
| Side Effects | Common: Treatments often cause significant side effects | Minimized: We use natural therapies to help reduce side effects |
| Prevention | Reactive: Treats the disease after it happens | Proactive: Focuses on preventing illness and keeping you healthy |
| Personalization | General: One-size-fits-all approach | Tailored: We create a plan specifically for you based on your needs |
| Mental and Emotional Health | Often Overlooked: Not always part of the treatment | Included: We support your mental and emotional well-being as part of your care |
| Healing Philosophy | Symptom-Focused: Aims to eliminate symptoms | Holistic Healing: Supports your body’s natural ability to heal |
| Long-Term Health | Short-Term Focus: May not address long-term health | Long-Term Wellness: We aim to keep you healthy in the long run |
Why Choose Arka Health?
At Arka Health, we don’t just treat the disease—we treat you. Our integrative and functional medicine combines modern treatments with natural therapies, ensuring you get personalized care that supports your whole well-being. We help you manage side effects, prevent illness, and focus on your long-term health. With us, you’re not just fighting cancer—you’re living well.
| Aspect | Conventional Medicine | Integrative & Functional Medicine at Arka Health |
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Focus |
Disease-Centered: Prioritizes immediate symptom relief through medication or surgery, often overlooking root causes of illness. While effective in acute cases, this approach may neglect lifestyle factors that influence overall health.
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You-Centered: Arka Health treats the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—tailoring therapies to support long-term wellness and root-cause healing. This model enhances resilience and vitality through a broad range of evidence-based, non-toxic options.
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Your Role |
Passive: Patients are recipients rather than participants, often feeling disempowered and reliant on the healthcare provider’s directives.
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Active: Arka Health encourages patients to actively shape their treatment plans. Patients are educated and engaged, empowering them to make informed decisions, reducing feelings of helplessness |
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Side Effects
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Common and Often Severe: Conventional treatments, especially in oncology, involve aggressive therapies with significant side effects that can compromise quality of life and potentially lead to additional health complications.
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Minimized Through Natural Therapies: Arka Health emphasizes natural, low-risk interventions such as herbal supplements, nutrition, and mind-body practices that support the body’s innate healing capacity while aiming to reduce or avoid side effects. |
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Prevention |
Reactive: Typically, action is taken after illness appears, focusing on symptom suppression rather than addressing contributing lifestyle factors. |
Proactive: Arka Health focuses on prevention through lifestyle modification, early risk assessment, and personalized wellness plans, reducing future disease risk and enhancing long-term health.
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Personalization |
Standardized Care: Conventional medicine often applies a one-size-fits-all approach, which may not fully address individual needs, leading to variable outcomes.
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Tailored Care: Arka Health provides a highly personalized plan based on individual assessments, aiming for more effective and sustainable results by addressing each person’s unique needs and goals. |
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Mental and Emotional Health
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Frequently Overlooked: Conventional medicine tends to treat physical symptoms and may overlook the impact of mental and emotional stress on overall health.
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Incorporated into Care: Arka Health supports mental and emotional health, recognizing its importance in overall healing and resilience. Practices like meditation, counseling, and stress management are integrated to bolster holistic well-being.
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Healing Philosophy |
Symptom-Focused: Primarily aims to eliminate or control symptoms without always addressing underlying causes. |
Holistic Healing: Arka Health’s approach supports the body’s self-healing mechanisms, addressing underlying causes and promoting balance through a combination of conventional and complementary therapies. |
Why Choose Arka Health?
At Arka Health, we don’t just treat the disease—we treat you. Our integrative and functional medicine combines modern treatments with natural therapies, ensuring you get personalized care that supports your whole well-being. We help you manage side effects, prevent illness, and focus on your long-term health. With us, you’re not just fighting cancer—you’re living well.
Focuses on treating your body, mind, and spirit—not just the cancer.
Creates a treatment plan that’s tailored specifically to your needs.
Uses natural therapies to help reduce the side effects of cancer treatments.
Aims to make you feel better overall, both during and after treatment.
Works to prevent cancer from coming back by addressing the root causes.
Encourages you to take an active role in your treatment and recovery.
Provides care for your emotional and mental well-being, not just your physical health.
Combines the best of modern medicine with natural therapies that are proven to help.
Choosing integrative and functional medicine for your cancer care means treating your whole self—not just the cancer. This approach combines modern treatments with natural therapies like nutrition and stress management to help your body heal and reduce side effects. It’s about more than just fighting the disease; it’s about supporting your overall health, empowering you to be involved in your care, and ensuring you stay well in the long run. With this type of care, you’re stronger during treatment and healthier afterward.
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Embark on a transformative cancer care journey at Arka Anugraha Hospital in Bangalore, India, where we understand that battling cancer demands an all-encompassing approach. Our commitment is to seamlessly integrate traditional medical treatments with cutting-edge integrative therapies, providing you with unparalleled support and resources to optimize your cancer treatment and enhance your overall well-being.
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We personalize your plan based on your specific cancer, overall health, and personal preferences, ensuring your care is tailored just for you.
Integrative therapies can help reduce side effects, improve your well-being, and support your body’s healing alongside conventional cancer treatments.
Yes, our integrative therapies are designed to complement your existing treatments, and we coordinate closely with your doctors to ensure everything works safely together.
Therapies like acupuncture, nutrition, and stress management can help reduce common side effects like nausea, fatigue, and pain, making your treatment easier to handle.
We offer expert, holistic care that treats the whole person, not just the cancer. Our personalized approach helps you feel better and stay strong during and after treatment.
We treat a variety of cancers, including breast, prostate, lung, and more, supporting you through every stage of your journey.
Yes, we use therapies that are proven by research to be safe and effective, combining modern science with traditional practices.
We may suggest changes to your diet, exercise, and stress management to support your treatment and overall health.
Yes, by focusing on long-term health and addressing the root causes of illness, integrative oncology can help reduce the risk of recurrence.
You’ll meet with our team to discuss your health, current treatments, and goals, and we’ll work together to create a personalized care plan that’s right for you.
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