Objectives

• To understand how the IEP Clinic operates, in order to appreciate the context of the adjunct cancer therapies it offers.

• To become familiar with the author’s perspective on the challenges faced by patients and practitioners in response to the cancer diagnosis and its standard medical treatment.

• To know the type of data that is being presented; i.e. chart notes developed over a period of months or years, relaying brief patient comments and acupuncture treatment details.

• To learn some of the writings and experiences that influenced development of the adjunct cancer protocols utilized at IEP, especially the acupuncture component of the program that led to the “new twenty needles” (NTN) protocol.

• To gain a sense of the outcomes for patients who come to the IEP clinic with a diagnosis of stage III or stage IV cancer.

• To learn what constitutes acupuncture applied to “five zones” and the origins of the five zone framework.

• To appreciate which types of medical disorders are most appropriately treated by the five zone method of acupuncture therapy.

• To learn the six herb actions utilized for adjunct cancer therapy within the larger perspective of how herb effects are categorized.

• To understand how the six herb actions apply to the commonly reported symptoms experienced by cancer patients undergoing standard medical therapies

• To observe some examples of acupuncture points and herbs that are suited to the treatment framework being described.