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Cancer
Options philosophy is based on achieving the following
principles of care for our clients
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A partnership between client and practitioner in the
healing process
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Empowerment
of the client in all elements of informed decision
making
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Access
to the best information available about all approaches
to
treatment
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For
the client to be respected, and supported in their
treatment choices
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Appropriate
use of conventional and alternative methods to facilitate
the body's innate healing response
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Consideration
of all factors that influence health, wellness and
disease, including mind, spirit and community as well
as body
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A
philosophy that neither rejects conventional medicine
nor accepts alternative medicine uncritically
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The
use of natural, less invasive interventions whenever
possible
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The
broader concepts of promotion of health and the prevention
of illness as well as the treatment of disease
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