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Integrative Medicine combines conventional medicine with Complementary and Alternative Medicine. It cares for the whole person — mind, body, spirit and emotion. Dr. Monica Myklebust continues her series on Integrative Medicine in this video treating cancer and nutrition as well as other dimensions of addressing cancer with an integrative medical approach.

Cancer is a journey of both fear and hope. In this “Telly Award”-winning video, Dr. Monica answers vital questions that will help patients and their loved ones with care for the whole person through compassion, knowledge and spiritual resources. Together they offer hope and healing. Dr. Monica also goes into detail about the proper nutrition needed for cancer patients. The correct food and liquids are very important. “Food is medicine,” she says, especially when you choose well those foods that will help you through your journey.

Includes 10 minute bio on Dr. Monica Myklebust.

Monica Myklebust, M.D. is an Integrative Medicine Specialist and Medical Director for Providence Medical College in Portland, Oregon. She is uniquely qualified in the growing field of Integrative Medicine having served a family medicine residency at Mayo Clinic, participated as one of thirty physicians in a two-year residential fellowship personally directed by Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona, and served as Clinical Services Director of University of Michigan Integrative Medicine center. Additionally, she created Comfort TV programming for hospital patients and trained physicians in Integrative Medicine. She has written national policies used by academic health centers to incorporate integrative therapies such as acupuncture, massage, and energy medicine. Dr. Monica also served as Medical Director of the University of Maryland for Integrative Medicine.