Newly diagnosed with cancer
Find your way through the information based on your situation
Content:
When you have just received a cancer diagnosis, everything can feel chaotic. To provide clarity and an overview of relevant information, this page is divided according to the extent of the disease and which form of treatment you have chosen—or plan to choose.
A) With localized disease (without metastasis)
The focus is on understanding your disease and the primary treatment choices you have made, as well as additional measures that may be beneficial.
1. Conventional treatment alone
It can be beneficial to know about possible side effects of your treatment in advance, as some of these can be prevented. It is also important to stabilize your mental well-being so you can go all-in on the treatment.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Symptoms: General information about symptoms that may lead to further investigation.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Neoadjuvant Treatment: Knowledge about treatment given before surgery to shrink a tumor.
- Fertility: If you are of childbearing age, it may be relevant to know the options for preserving fertility.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice to ensure essential rest during a stressful time.
- My best advice: See what suggestions I have that may supplement your treatment (after consultation with your doctor).
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet.
- Owerweight
Underweight
Weight contorl: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both low and high weight can have significant consequences for the treatment process, side effects, and quality of life.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing and Box breathing: Specific exercises to create calm in the nervous system.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
Practical help and community
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
Undergoing a cancer journey while being responsible for minor children brings a unique layer of challenges. In addition to the above recommendations regarding your illness, these articles may provide important support for you in your role as a parent:
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the entire family. The process and the need for information are fundamentally different. Both parents and the young patient will be able to find information here that covers both the disease itself (in the lists above) and the unique situation the family is facing.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Choosing the conventional path means placing your trust in a well-documented and systematic approach. By understanding your treatment in depth, preparing for potential side effects, and actively using tools to strengthen yourself mentally, you become a stronger and more informed partner in your own process. This knowledge is your most important tool for navigating safely through the treatment.
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
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What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
Newly diagnosed with cancer
A) 2. Localized – Conventional and alternative treatment
Find your way through the information based on your situation
Indhold:
When you have just received a cancer diagnosis, everything can feel chaotic. To create clarity and provide you with an overview of relevant information, the page below is divided according to the extent of the disease and the type of treatment you have chosen—or plan to choose.
A) With localized disease (without metastasis)
Focus is on understanding your disease and the primary treatment choices you have made, as well as additional measures that may be beneficial.
2. Conventional and complementary/alternative treatment
When you have chosen the best of both worlds
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Symptoms: General information about symptoms that may lead to further investigation.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Neoadjuvant Treatment: Knowledge about treatment given before surgery to shrink a tumor.
- Specific local treatments: An overview of several possible treatments that, for most, can be curative.
- Fertility: If you are of childbearing age, it may be relevant to know the options for preserving fertility.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- Repurposed drugs and chemotherapy / and radiation therapy: Important knowledge about synergy and interactions.
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Dietary supplements for relief: Explore, for example, Ginger (for nausea), L-Glutamine (for mucosal problems), or CBD oil (for pain and nausea).
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Supplements and chemotherapy: Overview of 150+ dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during chemotherapy, focusing on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Supplements and radiation therapy: Overview of 150 dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during radiation therapy, with an emphasis on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
Practical help and community
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
Undergoing a cancer journey while being responsible for minor children brings a unique layer of challenges. In addition to the above recommendations regarding your illness, these articles may provide important support for you in your role as a parent:
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the entire family. The process and the need for information are fundamentally different. Both parents and the young patient will be able to find information here that covers both the disease itself (in the lists above) and the unique situation the family is facing.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
By combining the best of both worlds, you take active control of your health. This approach uses conventional treatment as the primary weapon against cancer, while complementary strategies work to strengthen your body, alleviate side effects, and improve your overall quality of life.
The goal is to create a comprehensive, synergistic plan where all parts support your path toward recovery. Remember to maintain an open dialogue with your treatment team regarding the initiatives you implement yourself.
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
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What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
Newly diagnosed with cancer
A) 3. Localized – Alternative treatment alone
Find your way through the information based on your situation
Indhold:
When you have just received a cancer diagnosis, everything can feel chaotic. To create clarity and provide an overview of relevant information, the page below is divided according to the extent of the disease and the type of treatment you have chosen—or plan to choose.
A) With localized disease (without metastasis)
Focus is on understanding your disease and the primary treatment choices you have made, as well as additional measures that may be beneficial.
3. Alternative treatment alone
Which options are particularly relevant to be aware of, and how do you navigate this information?
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Symptoms: General information about symptoms that may lead to further investigation.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- No medicine – Plan B: Which dietary supplements could you potentially use to replace some of these drugs to achieve a similar effect?
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Infusion and Injection Treatments: Explore Vitamin C I.V., Dendritic Cell Therapy, and Insulin-Potentiated Therapy.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Detox – detoxification: Strategies that support the body’s ability to neutralize and eliminate harmful substances. By promoting these processes, general health and well-being are achieved and maintained.
- Exercise: Daily physical activity has an anti-inflammatory effect and helps keep the body’s stress levels down. Every single step or workout counts.
- Quality of life and co-responsibility: The experience of having a personal influence on the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be particularly beneficial.
- Evidence vs. Experience: An essential article for navigating your choices.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Blood tests – What you can do: An overview of the most common blood tests for cancer, their normal ranges, and what you can do immediately if they fall outside the normal range.
- Alternative treatment concepts: Read about Dr. Vogl, Frankfurt, and Openwater treatment.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Faith moves mountains – the power of the mind: On the significance of the psyche for healing.
- Joe Dispenza: Works to uncover the effects of meditation on a scientific level and has achieved quite remarkable results for some participants.
- Post-traumatic growth (PTG): About finding meaning and growth in the midst of hardship.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
Practical help and community
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
Undergoing a cancer journey while being responsible for minor children brings a unique layer of challenges. In addition to the above recommendations regarding your illness, these articles may provide important support for you in your role as a parent:
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the entire family. The process and the need for information are fundamentally different. Both parents and the young patient will be able to find information here that covers both the disease itself (in the lists above) and the unique situation the family is facing.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Choosing an exclusively alternative path is a decision that requires deep personal conviction and a great deal of responsibility. This approach is not about finding a single cure, but about creating a comprehensive, cancer-hostile environment in the body through dedicated effort across many fronts—diet, supplements, detoxification, and mental work.
Your success depends on your ability to assemble a robust and personal protocol, listen to your body, and continuously follow up on your progress. With this strategy, you have chosen to be the primary driving force in your own healing.
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
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What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
Newly diagnosed with cancer
B) 1. With metastasis – Conventional
Find vej i informationen baseret på din situation
Indhold:
When you have just received a cancer diagnosis, everything can feel chaotic. To create clarity and provide an overview of relevant information, the page below is divided according to the extent of the disease and the type of treatment you have chosen—or plan to choose.
B) With spread (metastatic disease)
When the cancer has spread, the focus is on systemic treatment and long-term management of the disease.
1. Conventional treatment alone
It can be beneficial to know about potential side effects of your treatment in advance, as some of these can be prevented. It is also important to stabilize your psyche to avoid unnecessary uncertainty. Furthermore, it is useful to be aware of additional measures that may be beneficial for some.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Symptoms: General information about symptoms that may lead to further investigation.
- Metastases: A description of what metastases are, the risk of recurrence, various symptoms in the body, how metastases are diagnosed, and the available treatment options.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Neoadjuvant Treatment: Knowledge about treatment given before surgery to shrink a tumor.
- Genetic mutations: If this has not already been done, it is now time to investigate whether you have a specific mutation (e.g., BRCA, KRAS, EGFR) that allows for targeted treatment.
- Systemic treatments: Immunotherapy, targeted cancer treatment, and hormone therapy are also options it may be relevant to know about, as these are often the primary weapons against metastatic disease.
- Specific local treatments: An overview of several possible treatments that, for most, can be curative.
- Fertility: If you are of childbearing age, it may be relevant to know the options for preserving fertility.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice to ensure essential rest during a stressful time.
- (Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider))
- (Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.)
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- My best advice: See what suggestions I have that may supplement your treatment (after consultation with your doctor).
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Palliative care: Understand how palliative treatment is an active effort for your quality of life.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
Practical help and community
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
Undergoing a cancer journey while being responsible for minor children brings a unique layer of challenges. In addition to the above recommendations regarding your illness, these articles may provide important support for you in your role as a parent:
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the entire family. The process and the need for information are fundamentally different. Both parents and the young patient will be able to find information here that covers both the disease itself (in the lists above) and the unique situation the family is facing.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Receiving a diagnosis with spread immediately shifts the focus from a cure to long-term treatment and management. Although it is difficult news, modern systemic treatments—such as immunotherapy and targeted therapy—offer many opportunities to slow the disease and maintain a high quality of life.
Your goal is now, in close collaboration with your healthcare providers, to find the strategy that best controls the cancer and its symptoms, so you can live as good and active a life as possible.
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
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What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
Newly diagnosed with cancer
B) 2. With metastasis – Conventional and alternative
Find your way through the information based on your situation
Content:
When you have just received a cancer diagnosis, everything can feel chaotic. To create clarity and provide an overview of relevant information, the page below is organized by the extent of the disease and the type of treatment you have chosen—or plan to choose.
B) With spread (metastatic disease)
When the cancer has spread, the focus is on systemic treatment and long-term management of the disease.
2. Conventional and complementary/ alternative treatment
When you have chosen the best of both worlds.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Symptoms: General information about symptoms that may lead to further investigation.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Neoadjuvant Treatment: Knowledge about treatment given before surgery to shrink a tumor.
- Fertility: If you are of childbearing age, it may be relevant to know the options for preserving fertility.
- Integrative Oncology: Combines conventional cancer treatment with evidence-based complementary methods. The intersection between conventional and complementary treatment.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
- A number of treatments that offer something special:
- Specific treatments and techniques
- Praxisgemeinschaft für Zelltherapie, Duderstadt: A clinic in Duderstadt, Germany, offering cell-based immunotherapies, primarily dendritic cell therapy, for the treatment of cancer.
- Clinics such as Arcadia Praxisklinik or Dr. Vogl, Frankfurt: Recognized and reputable clinics with experience in, among other things, integrativ onkologi.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- No Medicine – Plan B: Which supplements can you potentially replace some of these medications with to achieve a similar effect?
- Repurposed drugs and chemotherapy / and radiation therapy: Important knowledge about synergy and interactions.
- COC Protocol: Explore the possibilities of using this or similar strategies.
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Fokuser på specifikke tilskud som Curcumin, Grøn te (EGCG), Melatonin, Artemisin og medicinske svampe som Turkey tail.
- Dietary supplements for relief: Explore, for example, Ginger (for nausea), L-Glutamine (for mucosal problems), or CBD oil (for pain and nausea).
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Supplements and chemotherapy: Overview of 150+ dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during chemotherapy, focusing on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Supplements and radiation therapy: Overview of 150 dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during radiation therapy, with an emphasis on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Metabolic strategy: Now as a more central part of your overall efforts.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Alternative treatments: Consider, for example, hyperthermia therapy or Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as a supplement.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Research: Here you can delve into interesting articles on research results in cancer treatment.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Faith moves mountains – the power of the mind: On the significance of the psyche for healing.
- Joe Dispenza: Works to uncover the effects of meditation on a scientific level and has achieved quite remarkable results for some participants.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Quality of life and shared responsibility: The experience of having an influence on the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be highly beneficial.
Practical help and community
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
Undergoing a cancer journey while being responsible for minor children brings a unique layer of challenges. In addition to the above recommendations regarding your illness, these articles may provide important support for you in your role as a parent:
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the entire family. The process and the need for information are fundamentally different. Both parents and the young patient will be able to find information here that covers both the disease itself (in the lists above) and the unique situation the family is facing.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
When you are facing a systemic disease, winning time or the battle itself requires an equally systemic and intelligent strategy. By choosing an integrative approach, you acknowledge that action must be taken on multiple fronts simultaneously.
You use the ‘heavy artillery’ of conventional medicine to attack the cancer directly, while using diet, supplements, and other measures to weaken its supply lines and strengthen the body’s own defenses. It is about creating an environment where cancer cannot thrive and where your quality of life is a top priority. You are not just a patient; you are the leader of your own treatment team.
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
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What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
Newly diagnosed with cancer
B) 3. With metastasis – Alternative alone
Find your way through the information based on your situation
Content:
When you have just received a cancer diagnosis, everything can feel chaotic. To create clarity and provide an overview of relevant information, the page below is organized by the extent of the disease and the type of treatment you have chosen—or plan to choose.
B) With spread (metastatic disease)
When the cancer has spread, the focus is on systemic treatment and long-term management of the disease.
3. Alternative treatment alone
When conventional treatment is opted out of, the entire effort is focused on creating an environment in the body that is hostile to cancer.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Symptoms: General information about symptoms that may lead to further investigation.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Evidence vs. Experience: An essential article for navigating your choices.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
- Clinics (Germany) such as Arcadia Praxisklinik, Dr. Vogl, Frankfurt, or Praxisgemeinschaft für Zelltherapie, Duderstadt: Recognized and reputable clinics that, among other things, have experience with treatments not available in Denmark.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- No medicine – Plan B: Which dietary supplements could you potentially use to replace some of these drugs to achieve a similar effect?
- COC Protocol: Explore the possibilities of using this or similar strategies.
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Focus on specific supplements such as Curcumin, Green tea (EGCG), Melatonin, Artemisinin, and medicinal mushrooms, as well as CBD, Medical Cannabis, and Turkey tail.
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Infusion and Injection Treatments: Explore Vitamin C I.V., Dendritic Cell Therapy, and Insulin-Potentiated Therapy.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Fasting: There are studies demonstrating that restricted fasting in certain situations can be beneficial in the context of cancer.
- Metabolic strategy: Now as a more central part of your overall efforts.
- Alternative treatments: Consider, for example, hyperthermia therapy or Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as a supplement.
- Detox – detoxification: Strategies that support the body’s ability to neutralize and eliminate harmful substances. By promoting these processes, general health and well-being are achieved and maintained.
- The Gerson Diet: Pure vegetable juices can be detoxifying and gentle. However, be mindful to avoid unwanted weight loss.
- Research: Here you can delve into interesting articles on research results in cancer treatment.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- (Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.)
- Quality of life and shared responsibility: The experience of having an influence on the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be highly beneficial.
- Faith moves mountains – the power of the mind: On the significance of the psyche for healing.
- Joe Dispenza: Works to uncover the effects of meditation on a scientific level and has achieved quite remarkable results for some participants.
- Post-traumatic growth (PTG): About finding meaning and growth in the midst of hardship.
Practical help and community
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
Undergoing a cancer journey while being responsible for minor children brings a unique layer of challenges. In addition to the above recommendations regarding your illness, these articles may provide important support for you in your role as a parent:
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the entire family. The process and the need for information are fundamentally different. Both parents and the young patient will be able to find information here that covers both the disease itself (in the lists above) and the unique situation the family is facing.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Facing metastatic disease and opting out of conventional treatment is the most demanding path to take. It is a full-time effort that requires your total dedication to a systemic and multifaceted strategy.
The goal is, through persistent effort with diet, targeted supplements, and lifestyle changes, to change the body’s fundamental biochemistry so that cancer can no longer thrive and grow. Your role is to be your own researcher and the primary strategist, constantly adjusting your protocol based on test results and the body’s signals. It is about taking ultimate responsibility for one’s life and health.
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
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What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.