Homeopathy does not treat the cancer. Homeopathy treats the patient who has cancer… by stimulating the body’s own healing intelligence so as to activate the healing process. This is the essential distinction between the orthodox medical approach to cancer, which seeks to destroy the tumour, and the homeopathic approach, which treats the patient enabling their system to destroy the tumour.

This is how Tamara Der-Ohanian explains the difference between the homeopathic treatment methods and Western medical practices such as chemotherapy and surgery. Homeopathy can also be used in conjunction with conventional treatments if the patient wishes. If you wish to learn more about homeopathic treatment, consult a practitioner near you.

Homeopathy, according to Wikipedia, is a form of alternative medicine that theorizes that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness. They also prescribe the consumption of natural herbs instead of medicines, supplements, and antibiotics; and plant-based food instead of the Western diets usually dominated by red meat.

This link provides useful information for healthy food and herbs that supposedly prevent and treat prostate cancer. Among the recommendations are:

• lessen your consumption of milk and dairy products
• eat food rich in zinc, vitamin D and E
• eat more tomatoes, fruit, garlic and soy-based food
• herbal remedies for prostate cancer are saw palmetto, pygeum, cernilton, and stinging nettle

Radical prostatectomy, cryosurgery, maximal androgen blockade. There are a lot of terms you may never have heard of before, but have learn quickly in order to understand this disease and the options for treatment. Prostate-cancer.org has a handy dictionary for you at this link of the common medical terms and acronyms you will need to master. Just click on the letters at the top to read through the dictionary, and click on any linked words that you don’t understand to go directly to the definition of that word.

A PDF file can also be downloaded if you wish to print the dictionary.