What Patients Say About Cancer Treatment at New Hope
What is Recurrent Cancer?
The journey toward cancer remission starts with knowing vital information about your disease.
When cancer comes back after treatment, it is called a recurrence or recurrent cancer. Being diagnosed with cancer again may cause feelings of shock, sadness, anger, disappointment, and fear. The difference is, you are now in possession of two important things that you may not have before — knowledge and experience. You have lived through a malignant or cancerous disease and now know exactly what to expect. Further, keep in mind that treatments may have improved since your first diagnosis, and new medications or methods may help with your treatment.
Why Does Cancer Come Back?
Recurrence begins with cancer cells that your last and previous treatment did not fully remove or destroy. This does not mean the treatment you received was erroneous. Instead, it means a small number of cancer cells survived and were too minuscule to show up in follow-up tests. Over time, these cells may multiply and grow into tumors or cancer that your doctor can detect.
Types of Recurrent Cancer We Treat at New Hope Unlimited
We offer a combination of conventional and holistic cancer treatments for the following types of recurrence:
Local Recurrence
Cancer is either in the same place or near the original cancer site.
Regional Recurrence
Cancer has grown into your lymph nodes or tissues near the original cancer site.
Distant Recurrence
Cancer has spread to tissues or organs far from the original cancer site.
What are the Signs of Cancer Recurrence?
The symptoms of recurrent cancer vary depending on the type of malignant disease you have. In general, some common symptoms that may occur with cancer include:
- A feeling of ill or deteriorating health
- Persistent pain anywhere in your body
- Changes in bowel habits
- Blood in the stool
- Changes in urination
- Unexplained anemia (low blood count)
- Unintended weight loss or gain
- A cough that persists or worsens
- Blood-tinged saliva
- Lumps in the testicles, indicating testicular cancer in men
- Lumps in the breast, or any changes that may signal breast cancer
How Do Doctors Confirm a Recurrent Cancer?
Getting an early diagnosis may drastically improve your recurrent cancer prognosis and life expectancy. You may need to undergo different diagnostic tests, including but not limited to:
- Medical and physical exams
- Blood tests, such as:
- Complete blood count (CBC) tests
- Fecal occult blood tests
- Endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Imaging tests to determine the extent of cancer:
- Bone scans
- Chest X-rays
- Ultrasounds
- Mammography
- Computed tomography (CT) scans
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans
- Positron emission tomography (PET) scans
- Tumor marker tests
- Sample tissue removal (biopsies)
After receiving a recurrent cancer diagnosis, the most important step is to plan your treatment.
Choose New Hope for Recurrent Cancer Alternative Treatment
Our cancer care team understands how traumatic and frustrating it is to receive a recurrent cancer diagnosis, and learning that you have a regional or distant recurrence can add to your disappointment. We hope it gives you strength and reassurance to know that our licensed medical specialists — who additionally practice holistic medicine — are committed to the latest research and treatment of recurrent cancers. What’s more, we are here to support you through treatment, survivorship, and beyond.
New Hope Unlimited takes pride in being an authority in a cross between mainstream and alternative cancer treatments. For more information, read about our treatment strategy here.
Our Approach
Advanced Treatments for Recurrent Cancer
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Patient SatisfactionOur Patient-Centric Medical Facilities
At New Hope Unlimited, we pride ourselves in providing superior comfort, cleanliness, and cancer care at our 8,000 square foot medical treatment center in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. We worked with renowned architects and contractors to create the ideal space for recovery, which includes state-of-the-art lounge areas and spacious private in-rooms that assure the comfort of our patients and their loved ones. To make our patients feel right at home, we equip each private ward with high-definition U.S. television, quality bedding, and high-speed internet connection. And with proper nutrition playing a vital role in cancer recovery, New Hope Unlimited also fulfills the dietary needs of each patient using fresh, organic produce to prepare breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. Comfort and cleanliness are also strictly implemented in our medical treatment rooms, which are equipped with the latest medical supplies and technology to provide the highest standard of care and treatment. Our medical center also has an in-house Hyperbaric Chamber, a well-established therapy for decompression sickness, exclusively available for our patients’ use. Further, New Hope Unlimited has maintained its exceptional partnership with Hospital Migoo, a medical group composed of certified physicians and specialists committed to our patients’ care and well-being.Stories of New Hope
Life-changing tales of our cancer patients and survivors.
FAQs
1. What specific treatments does New Hope offer?
From anti-tumor intravenous therapy to advanced hyperbaric oxygen therapy, read our Treatments for Cancer Page to know more about the alternative treatments for you may receive for recurrent cancer.2. Which cancers have high recurrence rates?
According to the Cancer Therapy Advisor: Glioblastoma recurs in almost all patients; the rate of recurrence among patients with ovarian cancer is at 85 percent, and soft tissue sarcomas recur in about 50 percent of patients.