Cancer patients should ask their oncologists why immune function isn't being monitored and whether treatments can boost natural killer cells and dendritic cells. The right questions can shift treatment toward immune-supportive strategies that work alongside standard care.
When you talk to your oncologist ask why aren't you monitoring my immune function? I don't want it just to kill my tumor. I want my immune system to shut the cancer down. What is the treatment you're doing to help my natural killer cells and dendritic cells fight my cancer? Is there a way to combine these both standard of care treatments with integrative care and immune supportive strategies so that I can heal or have a better chance of healing? Asking starts to shift the conversation when the cancer has already spread and become aggressive. We need to be targeted on all the right combinations to shut it down so we can help the body go back to its normal natural health by re establishing the immune system. And so all you can do as a patient or a caregiver is ask the right questions, get your doctors on the right track and if they're not there, find someone who is because that's the difference in cancer treatment.
