Seminar focuses on cancer

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      Dr. Frederich Douwes, whose options for cancer patients have been recognized around the globe, is providing innovative ammunition in the battle against cancer.
      Douwes, the medical director for St. Georg Hospital in Europe, spoke to nearly 100 Las Vegas-area residents and physicians at an open house recently at the Desert Shores Medical Options clinic, 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 109.
      A specialist in internal medicine, medical oncology and integrative medicine, Douwes described new cancer treatment options that produce significantly higher success statistics with virtually all cancer types.
      "We need to stop the tumor's growth, but at the same time have to support the body to restore the healing forces," he told the crowd. "What we do at St. Georg fights the bad, but also does good at the same time."
      Citing numerous cases and showing slides of cancer patients and their remarkable recoveries and improvements, Douwes explained the importance of combining traditional medical therapies with alternative therapies. The conventional cancer treatments cause the destruction of cells, produce numerous side effects and debilitate further organ function, he said.
      Complimentary cancer therapies involve stabilizing the psychological side of patients, and improving their liver and kidney functions as well as their immune systems. Under this, treatments involve a multitude of facets, including psychotherapy, immune therapy, nutrition, electro-cancer treatment and hyperthermia, also known as heat treatment.
      "Fever is used by the body to fight disease," Douwes said in regards to heat therapy. "Electricity and electro medicine is the natural part of this treatment."
      In dealing with a cancer patient psychologically, the focus should be on health, life and the quality and extension of life, he said.
      "We found it very important to talk to patients and teach them how to go about organizing their lives and dealing with their anxiety," he said.
      Many who attended the seminar were concerned that some alternative treatments offered at St. Georg Hospital in Europe are not offered in the United States. The lecture taught residents more about alternative medicine and other options in treating health problems.
      Those interested in the St. Georg Hospital System can call the Las Vegas-based Desert Shores Medical Center at 360-5000.
      "You're not treating just the symptoms, you're treating the whole person," Summerlin resident Jean Royer said. "The symptom is just that. It has an underlying cause."
      Desert Shores Medical Options provides many treatments for the "whole body" and has prepared cancer patients for trips to Europe for further treatments, said Deborah Sorgnard, a St. Georg patient whose breast cancer went into remission after treatments.
      The Desert Shores clinic uses a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach for the treatment of the whole body, offering such services as stress management, electrical pain suppression, IV nutrition, heat and frigid air therapy, toxin and poison removal, nerve and muscle training and physical rehabilitation.