The PEAT Institute for Cancer Knowledge

The Peat Foundation has been formed to provide an education and support resource for practitioners and carers supporting people with cancer. After 30 years of working in oncology as a nurse and 21 years of that in integrative cancer support this is the natural progression for Patricia Peat to share everything she has learnt over the years about Integrative Oncology.

Over these years the there have been fundamental changes in the how we view managing cancer:

• The research evidence showing the way cancer manifests as a metabolic disease where the lifestyle interventions undertaken by the individual can have an effect has increased in both quantity and quality

• Our understanding of how cancer cells manipulate their extracellular environment and how the health of that environment can help people.

• Some of the more questionable approaches of old which deters doctors from taking an interest in worldwide practitioners are training in nutrition, naturopathy, holistic therapies to a very high academic standard. Research and evidence driven training into functional medicine,  how disease starts and what manifests in the body provides the pathway back to health which is both in hi individual and precise. 

• The work of ground-breaking research practitioners such as Dr Nasha Winters, Jane McClelland, Travis Christopherson is shaping the future of integrative oncology support that is scientifically based and outcome measurable.