Integrative Regulatory Therapy (IRT) Cancer Protocols

Cancer cells are everything we would like healthy cells to be. They are quick to adapt to toxic environments, they readily alter themselves to assure their continued survival, and they utilize biologic mechanisms to promote cellular immortality. All these factors make cancer treatment and extremely difficult disease to treat.

It is impossible to design a single cancer treatment that is effective against all types of cancers. For this reason, Oasis of Hope has developed the Integrative Regulatory Therapy. The IRT, as it has become to be known, is a combination of integrative and alternative cancer treatments designed to shrink primary tumors, slow the growth of tumors, and eliminate cancer cells that have spread (metastasized) to other parts of your body. At the same time, the Integrative Regulatory Therapy protects your normal healthy cells, boosts your immune system, blocks the angiogenic process that supports cancer growth, and minimizes cancer-induced cachexia (side-effects).

The IRT is designed so it can be personalized depending on the type of cancer, stage, and the physical condition of the patient. The treatment can be modified as needed to ensure that the therapy is effective and well tolerated by the patient.

Patients at Oasis of Hope are enrolled into one of the three main protocols: IRT-C, IRT-IL, and IRT-Q. These protocols share many of the same cancer therapeutic measures; however they are differentiated because not all cancers respond to the same therapies and patients may express a preference for alternative or integrative cancer treatments. Patients on all protocols do receive immune supportive techniques intended to suppress the formation of new blood cells that support tumor growth, and to eliminate Treg cells (immune cells resistance to treatment) that act to prevent the immune system from attacking cancer.

Although the three IRT protocols have important differences, they share a number of common strategies that are intended to optimize the elimination of cancer cells, protect healthy tissues, slow cancer growth and spread, and tend to the special emotional and spiritual needs of each patient.