Experience Natural Cancer Care with Dr. Jake Psenka at Chambers Clinic
Harnessing the Power of Nature in Your Fight Against Cancer
Welcome to a new approach to cancer care. At the Chambers Clinic, we believe in integrating the best of naturopathic treatments and medical oncology to improve patient outcomes. With over 20 years of experience in naturopathic medicine, Dr. Jake Psenka is considered an expert in providing naturally based integrative oncology services
Hi, I’m Dr. Jake Psenka
Conventional Cancer Care Isn’t Your Only Option
I have extensive experience combining naturopathic therapies with conventional cancer care, and love educating my patients about their condition and treatment options so that they can be an active participant in their own care.
Our integrative cancer therapy utilizes specific strategies that work in synergy with your body's natural defenses, including
Minimizing conventional treatment-related adverse effects
Implementing dietary strategies that weaken cancer cells while promoting overall health
Preventing cancer treatment resistance
Stimulating and supporting
Repurposing medicationg & targeting supplementation
Mind body medicine
We believe in empowering our patients through education, ensuring that you are actively involved in your own treatment. Our approach is personalized, not one-size-fits-all. We understand that each patient's journey is unique, and we tailor our approach to meet your individual needs
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Our Philosophy
It is our philosophy that an optimal treatment plan for cancer should provide much more than a single treatment modality. To be successful an alternative, cancer treatments plan needs to be multi-modal and fight cancer by attacking the tumor directly, crippling a cancer cell's metabolism and energy production, cutting off blood supply to the tumor, stimulating the immune system, and inhibiting treatment resistance. Importantly, restoring health and healing vitality to the person fighting cancer is of utmost importance and must be a priority as well.
Integrative Medicines and Treatments
We use a variety of medications, highest-quality supplements, herbal medicines, IV treatments, physical medicine, and dietary plans when creating protocols for our patients. As stated previously, our physicians have the experience to safely incorporate our recommendations into a patient's current cancer treatment protocol. By doing so patients often experience better results, increased overall health, and less adverse medication reactions. We believe that as your doctor it is our duty to work with the other health care providers on your medical team. The best results are often achieved when using naturopathic, alternative and conventional cancer treatment approaches in an integrative fashion, rather than relying on solely one or the other.
Preventative Cancer Care
Our experience also provides us with the ability to offer guidance to patients about how to prevent cancer recurrence. This extends beyond providing our patients with specific lifestyle and nutritional changes, but also to the use of targeted therapies used to make the body an inhospitable place for cancer to survive. Today's technology allows for the identification of risk factors associated with increased cancer risk. It is important to identify and eliminate these cancer risk factors not only for the primary prevention of cancer, but also for the prevention of cancer recurrence.
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Resistant Starch and Pancreatic Cancer
Fiber may just be the Rodney Dangerfield of cancer therapies; it gets no respect.
That is until now. Recently there have been scientific articles published describing with fantastic detail how dietary fiber, and in particular a type of fiber known as resistant starch, can influence the development and progression of cancer.
Resistant starch is a type of fiber that travels through the digestive tract intact until it reaches the large intestine. Once in the large intestine the resistant starch is metabolized by the bacteria that reside there. This bacterial metabolism results in a variety of changes, notably formation of short-chain fatty acids. One unique aspect of resistant starch is that it is not metabolized into glucose as many other forms of fiber and starch are. Minimizing glucose, aka human blood sugar, is a smart idea when fighting cancer.
Most people have an idea that fiber is good for them and that they should consume more of it. However, in my 20 years of naturopathic medical practice, running into a patient who actually meets the recommended intake of 20-38 grams of fiber per day is indeed a rarity. Fiber supplements don’t typically make headlines, and maybe that’s why fiber gets little attention and little respect.
That might change in the near future. Recently a medical research article was published that found that resistant starch had the ability to slow down the growth of pancreatic cancer. These researchers looked at the effect that a diet of resistant starch had on markers of growth and progression in mice xenografted with pancreatic cancers. Xenografting mice with pancreatic cancer might not be the nicest thing in the world to the mice, but it is currently one of the best ways of studying cancer in a live system. These are typically specifically bred mice that have human cancers implanted. In this case the mice were xenografted with human pancreatic cancer cells and then fed either a diet containing resistant starch or, as a control, a normal mouse chow.
The researchers then analyzed the differences in the micro-RNA's produced by the mice. Micro-RNA (miRNA) are chunks of proteins that play important roles in the expression of different genes. The genes the miRNA’s can either promote cancer growth or inhibit cancer growth. In this study it was found that mice fed the resistant starch diet produced miRNA’s that are known to inhibit pancreatic cancer growth whereas the mice fed regular mouse chow did not. The MiRNA’s with positive prognostic effects in this study are miRNA-375, miRNA-148a-3p, miRNA-125a-5p, and miRNA-200a-3p. Look here for a detailed look at miRNA’s in pancreatic cancer.
This is really good news. Pancreatic cancer often has a dismal prognosis, and non-drug substances like resistant starch are a welcome addition to the integrative oncology armamentarium.
A favorite way to get resistant starch into your daily routine is to add ½ a frozen green banana to a smoothie.
For more information and to schedule a consultation with Chambers Clinic, contact us at 480-389-3265 or visit our website.
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How Does Natural Cancer Care Work? Read Below to Find Out More!
What is Our Philosophy?
It is our philosophy that an optimal treatment plan for cancer should provide much more than a single treatment modality. To be successful an alternative, cancer treatments plan needs to be multi-modal and fight cancer by attacking the tumor directly, crippling a cancer cell's metabolism and energy production, cutting off blood supply to the tumor, stimulating the immune system, and inhibiting treatment resistance. Importantly, restoring health and healing vitality to the person fighting cancer is of utmost importance and must be a priority as well.
What Kind of Medications Do We Use?
We use a variety of medications, highest-quality supplements, herbal medicines, IV treatments, physical medicine, and dietary plans when creating protocols for our patients. As stated previously, our physicians have the experience to safely incorporate our recommendations into a patient's current cancer treatment protocol. By doing so patients often experience better results, increased overall health, and less adverse medication reactions. We believe that as your doctor it is our duty to work with the other health care providers on your medical team. The best results are often achieved when using naturopathic, alternative and conventional cancer treatment approaches in an integrative fashion, rather than relying on solely one or the other.
Do You Offer Preventative Treatment to Prevent Cancer Recurrence?
Our experience also provides us with the ability to offer guidance to patients about how to prevent cancer recurrence. This extends beyond providing our patients with specific lifestyle and nutritional changes, but also to the use of targeted therapies used to make the body an inhospitable place for cancer to survive. Today's technology allows for the identification of risk factors associated with increased cancer risk. It is important to identify and eliminate these cancer risk factors not only for the primary prevention of cancer, but also for the prevention of cancer recurrence.
Testimonials
“After being diagnosed with prostate cancer, I decided to seek independent advice and possible treatment in Arizona. He helped me digest the mountains of information and advice that I’d received from well-meaning naturopaths, urologists, family physicians and friends, as well as the multitude of reading that I had done on the subject. I recommend that you contact him if you find yourself in this dilemma. To this day, we continue to rely on his advice.
*** P.S. I am now 12 months free of cancer!”
“I first met Dr. Psenka after I finished my 3rd round of chemo for metastatic breast cancer. Our initial interview lasted over and hour and Dr. Psenka acted as though he would stay there all day if that is what it took to get all my questions answered. He has an incredible grasp of the mechanics of my disease and was very informative on what immune support, nutrition. and treatment he would recommend. I wish I would have started with his regime at the onset of my breast cancer, as I feel the outcome would have been different. I am stable now and my last PET showed no activity in my bone lesions. The nutritional support has kept me as healthy as one could be having the chemo/radiation that I’ve had. I work full time and lead and active life. I see my oncologist regularly, as well as Dr. Psenka. I feel this gives me the best advantage I am going to have to survive. I would encourage anyone with an early diagnosis of cancer to consider alternative therapies along with their chemo. Dr. Psenka and his staff are a great team and a remarkable resource to help anyone through this difficult diagnosis.”
I appreciated that Dr. Psenka was unhurried and happy to spend as much time as was needed to discuss our concerns, answer as many questions as came up, and explain his philosophy and approach to treating YOU. He was approachable and listened… rather than just talked/lectured. I get the feeling that he’s always thinking head of the “what if’s” and “how to’s”. I know one thing for sure… I would want him on my team!” -from a friend of a patient who participated in the initial consultation”
About Us
Dr. Psenka continues to practice integrative cancer medicine today, and after nearly 20 years of practice, has extensive experience combining naturopathic therapies with conventional cancer care. Dr. Psenka believes in educating his patients about their condition and treatment options so that they can be an active participant in their own care.
Contact Information
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Scottsdale, AZ 85255
(480) 903-8457
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