Breast Cancer

Verita Life provides a personalised approach to integrative breast cancer treatment, assisting patients and their loved ones every step of the way. Through evidence-backed medical care alongside holistic therapies, each patient treatment plan is tailored to diagnosis, stage, overall health, and personal well-being goals.

At Verita Life our combined goal is to provide conventional and alternative cancer treatments as part of a broader supportive care plan, with a concentrated focus on optimising comfort, resilience, and quality of life.

Our role is to provide supportive, complementary therapies alongside conventional care where appropriate. These approaches may help support wellbeing, comfort and quality of life during the cancer journey. We work with patients who are seeking integrative options, whether alongside ongoing medical treatment or as part of a broader supportive care plan.

Breast Cancer is a blanket term that covers a number of different subtypes. Each different form of breast cancer has its own characteristics and requires a different approach to treatment. At Verita Life we tailor patient care programmes to the individual and their unique circumstances, taking into account the breast cancer type, stage, and current or previous treatments.

We commonly work with patients with many different breast cancer types, including but not limited to:

Breast cancer may not cause symptoms at first, and it is often found on a screening mammogram before anything can be felt. When it does cause symptoms, the most common one is a lump. Signs and symptoms can include:

• A lump or thickened area in the breast or underarm that feels different from the surrounding tissue
• A change in the size, shape, or appearance of a breast
• Dimpling, puckering, or skin that looks like an orange peel
• A nipple that turns inward, or discharge from the nipple other than breast milk
• Redness, scaling, or flaking of the skin of the breast or nipple
• Pain in any area of the breast that does not go away

Most breast lumps are not cancer. But how a lump feels cannot tell you whether it is cancer, so any change should be checked.

The stage describes how far the cancer has grown and whether it has spread. It is worked out from the size of the tumour, whether lymph nodes are involved, and whether cancer is found elsewhere in the body, together with the grade of the cells and their hormone receptor and HER2 status.

Stage 0 is non-invasive cancer contained in the ducts. Stages I to III are invasive cancers of increasing size and lymph-node involvement that have not spread beyond the breast and nearby nodes. Stage IV, also called metastatic breast cancer, has spread to other parts of the body.

The stage shapes what conventional treatment is offered and which of our therapies are appropriate.

Breast cancer treatment depends on the type, the stage, the receptor status, and your overall health and preferences. Most people have a combination of the treatments below, planned by an oncology team. Verita Life does not replace this care. Our therapies are designed to support it.

Surgery

Surgery removes the cancer and some surrounding tissue. A lumpectomy keeps most of the breast; a mastectomy removes all breast tissue. Nearby lymph nodes are often removed and checked for cancer.

Radiation therapy

High-energy beams directed at the breast or chest wall, most often after surgery, to lower the risk of the cancer coming back.

Chemotherapy

Medicines that kill fast-growing cells, given before surgery to shrink a tumour or after surgery to remove cells that remain. Side effects such as fatigue, nausea, and low immunity are common and are one of the main reasons patients come to us for support.

Hormone therapy

Medicines that block oestrogen or progesterone, used for hormone receptor-positive cancers, often for several years.

Targeted therapy and immunotherapy

Medicines that act on specific features of the cancer cells, such as HER2, or that help the immune system recognise the cancer. Used for HER2-positive and some triple-negative cancers.

Our integrative breast cancer approach

Breast Cancer treatment at Verita Life goes far beyond just treating the tumour. Rather, we take a whole-person approach - addressing physical and mental wellbeing, emotional support, and lifestyle factors alongside traditional and modern oncology care.

Our personalised programmes include:

Why choose Verita Life for breast cancer care

• Specialised international cancer centres: We offer international standards, personalised care, and a patient-first approach.
• Integrative and complementary focus: Our treatments are designed to support overall wellbeing alongside our medical treatments.
• Individually tailored programmes: Our committed staff will create a unique treatment plan for your specific diagnosis, lifestyle, and overall treatment journey.
• Supportive environment: Our compassionate team focuses on guidance, education, and emotional support in a calm and relaxing environment.

Treatment for breast cancer care at Verita Life

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