Human disease is an elaborate dance between behavior, our environment, and chance. Medicine tries to tame human disease with science, but when our knowledge falls short, disease wins. This is too often the case with cancer. We spend billions of dollars each year trying to better understand it and develop tools to ease its effects. Today, many allopathic medical practitioners are beginning to seek out a greater connection with holistic and integrative approaches. The authors of this book introduce one specific therapy and make a case for integrative health in general, including anthroposophically extended medicine, naturopathy, and other holistic approaches. Mistletoe therapy has long been considered a viable treatment for cancer by the European medical community and is beginning to gain recognition in North America, as well. The mistletoe plant possesses many remarkable properties. As a therapy, it represents a rediscovery of ancient wisdom and shows us how the science of modern medicine might expand its reach
and reconnect with a more human-centered medicine. The book was structured following the syllabus for a three-day practitioner training hosted by the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM). The chapters highlight several of our key lectures in a condensed form. The book serves as an introductory summary of—not a replacement for— those intensive professional trainings. While this book should not be regarded as a treatment or diagnostic manual, it is intended to both prepare practitioners to begin mistletoe therapy training and to make this information available, in an accessible form, to anyone interested in learning about this approach to treating cancer. 

STEVEN JOHNSON, DO served as Co-chief Resident of Internal
Medicine at the University of Massachusetts affiliated hospitals
in Worcester (1996). He directed one of the first inpatient
integrative medicine clinics in the U.S. and now directs the first
European Mistletoe/Integrative Medicine Training Program in
North America. Dr. Johnson has written numerous articles
and lectured internationally. He is currently the president
of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine
(PAAM) and founder of the Foundation for Health Creation.
Currently Dr. Johnson works part time in private practice at
Collaborative Medical Arts (CollaborativeMedicalArts.net) in
upstate New York and also practices with adults with special
needs at Camphill Village in Copake, New York. Dr. Johnson is
an avid student of medicinal botany, and serves as a consultant
for integrative and anthroposophic pharmacy.
NASHA WINTERS, ND, FABNO (Fellow of the American Board
of Naturopathic Oncology) is a global healthcare authority
and best-selling author in integrative cancer care and research
(DrNasha.com). Consulting with physicians around the world,
she has educated hundreds of professionals in the clinical use
of mistletoe. She has created robust educational programs
for both healthcare institutions and the public to incorporate
well-vetted integrative therapies into cancer care to enhance
outcomes. Dr. Winters is currently focused on opening a comprehensive
metabolic oncology hospital and research institute
(Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health) in the U.S., which will
provide the best that standard of care has to offer alongside
the most advanced integrative therapies. This facility will be in
a residential setting on a gorgeous campus, against a backdrop
of regenerative farming, EMF mitigation, and wellnessoriented
retreat space.
ADAM BLANNING, MD practices anthroposophic family
medicine at the Denver Center for Anthroposophic Therapies
(DenverTherapies.com) in Denver, Colorado. He is president of
the Anthroposophic Health Association (AHA), an umbrella
organization for groups working to bring anthroposophic
insights into the realms of medicine, nursing, naturopathy,
body therapies, artistic therapies, movement therapies, and
counseling. Dr. Blanning lectures and teaches nationally
and internationally on topics related to holistic medicine
and the dynamics of human development. He is the author
of Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs: Holistic
Approaches for Challenging Behaviors in Children (2017). MARION DEBUS, MD received her medical training at Ruhr-University
Bochum (1989–1995). Her professional training in internal medicine
includes her years at Klinik Öschelbronn Germany, Princess of Wales
Hospital Bridgend GB, and Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Havelhöhe in
Berlin, Germany. Between 2002 and 2005, Marion further specialized
in hematology and oncology at Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus in
Stuttgart. From 2005 to 2017, she was senior physician at the
anthroposophic community hospital Havelhöhe Berlin with a large
oncological outpatient clinic. She is currently Head of the Department
of Oncology, Hematology, and Internal Medicine at Klinik Arlesheim
(Klinik-Arlesheim.ch) near Basel, Switzerland.
PAUL FAUST, ND, FABNO (Fellow of the American Board
of Naturopathic Oncology) is the Founder and Naturopathic
Medical Director of the Chesapeake Natural Health Center
(ChesapeakeNaturalHealth.com), established in 2001. He became the
first Naturopathic Doctor licensed by Maryland’s Board of Physicians
in 2016 and has been retained by them as an Expert Witness for
cases involving Naturopathic Medicine within the state. He also
serves on the board of the Naturopathic Formulary Council. In 2020,
he was selected to receive Maryland’s first Naturopathic Doctor of
the Year Award. Previously he has served on the editorial review
board for the Alternative Medicine Review, a leading publication for
complementary and alternative medicine.
MARK HANCOCK, MD founded Humanizing Medicine in Atlanta,
Georgia, together with his wife Enid, in 2015. The clinic is strongly
rooted in the couple’s belief that everyone should have quality
integrative healthcare options. For his entire professional career, Dr.
Hancock has worked with Anthroposophic Medicine, which originally
introduced mistletoe as a cancer care therapy over one hundred years
ago. Dr Hancock graduated summa cum laude from Saint George’s
Medical School in 2008 and was elected Chief Resident during his
training at University of New Mexico Hospital. He was introduced
to the advanced use of mistletoe by Dr. Maurice Orange, greatly
impacting his life course. Dr. Hancock’s journey through life has been
full and varied and has taken him through art, philosophy, science,
and even some farm work, before ultimately landing in medicine. Read
about his journey and medical philosophy at HumanizingMedicine.
com.
PETER HINDERBERGER, MD was born and raised in Switzerland,
where he also attended medical school. In 1978, he completed part of
his internship at the Lukas Klinik in Arlesheim, Switzerland (now the
oncology department of the Klinik Arlesheim), an integrative oncology
clinic. In 1982, he spent another six months at that clinic to deepen
his knowledge and practical experience in the use of subcutaneous
and intravenous mistletoe. In the spring of 1984, Dr. Hinderberger
opened his general practice at the Ruscombe Mansion Community
Health Center in Baltimore. He now practices at the Raphael Clinic of
Maryland (RaphaelClinicMD.com) in Towson, Maryland. Integrative
oncology has always been a focus of his research and practice.