Blood Cancers

Blood cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma are typically treated through a range of specialised therapies, such as chemotherapy, and immunotherapy.

At Verita Life, our team offers integrative support for patients who are receiving treatment, have completed treatment, or are no longer responding to traditional treatments. We focus on providing supportive care that prioritises comfort, stability, and your overall wellbeing.

We help patients with a range of different blood cancer types, including:

Blood cancers affect the cells that carry oxygen, fight infection, and stop bleeding, so their symptoms are often general and easy to mistake for a lingering infection. They can include:

• Feeling very tired, weak, or short of breath
• Frequent or persistent infections
• Fever for no known reason, or drenching night sweats
• Bruising or bleeding easily, or tiny red spots under the skin
• Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, underarm, groin, or abdomen
• Weight loss for no known reason, or loss of appetite
• Bone pain, or pain in the chest or abdomen for no known reason
• Itchy skin, or a rash

A blood test is usually the first step and often shows a problem before any other test does.

Blood cancers are classified rather than staged in the usual way. Leukaemia is described by the cell type (lymphoid or myeloid), by whether it is acute or chronic, and by genetic changes in the cancer cells that place it in a risk group.

Lymphoma is staged from I to IV by how many groups of lymph nodes are involved and whether it has spread to organs or bone marrow, with the letters A and B noting whether fever, night sweats, and weight loss are present. Myeloma is staged by blood tests that reflect how much cancer is present and how it is behaving.

Treatment depends on the exact type of blood cancer, its risk group or stage, your age and overall health, and for some slow-growing types whether treatment is needed yet at all. A haematology team plans it. Verita Life does not replace this care. Our therapies are designed to support it.

Watchful waiting

Regular monitoring without treatment for some slow-growing leukaemias and lymphomas that are not causing problems.

Chemotherapy

Medicines that kill fast-growing cells, the mainstay for acute leukaemia and most lymphomas, given in courses over months.

Targeted therapy

Tablets or infusions that block specific changes in the cancer cells, now the main treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia and many other types.

Immunotherapy

Antibody medicines that mark cancer cells for the immune system, and CAR T-cell therapy, in which your own immune cells are engineered to attack the cancer.

Radiation therapy

High-energy beams to treat lymphoma confined to one area, or to relieve pain from affected bone.

Stem cell transplant

High-dose treatment followed by an infusion of your own or a donor’s blood-forming stem cells, used for some high-risk or relapsed cancers.

A considered approach to treatment support

Support for blood cancers requires a cautious and medically guided approach, often when patients have already completed extensive treatment. At Verita Life, we design our programmes around you and any other treatments you are currently undergoing or have already completed.

Our approach includes:

Why patients choose Verita Life for blood cancer support

• Specialised patient pathways: Care structured for patients seeking support during or after conventional treatment.
• Integrative supportive focus: Our therapies are designed to support your wellbeing and quality of life.
• Individually tailored programmes: Our treatment plans are designed to work with your prior and current treatments, current condition, and personal goals.
• Supportive clinical environments: We provide compassionate care, guidance, and ongoing support throughout your treatment.

Treatment for blood cancer care at Verita Life

Verita Life’s integrative blood cancer treatments incorporate medically-backed traditional therapies with holistic therapies designed to complement conventional care. Our blood cancer treatments include:

Metronomic Therapy

Metronomic chemotherapy is an approach to cancer treatment in which chemotherapy is given at a lower dose, but more frequently and with shorter or no extended breaks between treatments.

Metabolic Treatment

Metabolic approaches investigate how cancer cells obtain and use energy and nutrients. Cancer cells behave very differently to healthy cells, often heavily relying on glucose and alter their metabolic pathways in order to grow more rapidly than healthy cells. This is a broad area of research, not a single established treatment or diet and at Verita Life we use metabolic approaches within our wider, personalised treatment plans.

Local Body Hyperthermia

Local body hyperthermia is a type of integrative therapy designed to work alongside both integrative oncology care and conventional cancer treatments. Local body hyperthermia is a targeted heat-based therapy that delivers controlled heat to specific areas of the body.

IPT & Low-Dose Chemotherapy

Insulin potentiation therapy, or IPT, uses insulin alongside lower doses of chemotherapy as part of an integrative cancer treatment approach.

Herbal Cancer Therapy

Following years of research, our medical team have developed specific herbal treatment protocols to address varying types of tumours. We use proven compounds that stem from all natural herbal ingredients such as curcumin, quercetin and other anti-cancer therapies.

Biological Treatment

Biological treatments are supportive regimens that can sometimes fall under immunotherapy due to their nature, and work by harnessing the body's natural immune system or targeting precise molecular pathways involved in cancer growth.

Natural Killer Cell Therapy

Natural Killer (NK) cells are a type of lymphocyte, or white blood cell, that play a major role in the immune system by targeting and killing infected cells and cancer cells.