Understand Your Cancer Care

Clear information to help you navigate your options with confidence.

An Informed Approach to Integrative Oncology

Cancer care involves decisions that can feel complex, especially when you are considering nutrition, supplements, supportive therapies, and recommendations from multiple sources. Dr. Havens helps patients and families explore these questions in the context of their diagnosis and established oncology treatment.

Her approach begins with understanding your cancer history, current treatment, overall health, and personal priorities. Recommendations are considered alongside available clinical evidence, with attention to safety, potential interactions, and how they fit into your existing care.

Integrative oncology is designed to complement conventional cancer treatment. The focus is on helping you make informed decisions about supportive care while maintaining communication with your oncology team.

Your First Visit & What to Expect

A Thorough Review of Your History

Your care begins with a detailed review of your diagnosis, medical history, current symptoms, previous treatments, medications, supplements, and personal goals.

For oncology patients, this may include pathology reports, imaging, laboratory results, tumor genomic and biomarker testing, treatment history, and current recommendations from your oncology team. Dr. Havens considers this information together to understand your circumstances and identify the questions that need attention.

The conversation also includes your daily experience: how you are eating, sleeping, managing stress, and navigating the demands of treatment. These details help shape a plan that reflects your life as well as your medical history.

Space for Your Questions

You may have questions about whether a supplement is appropriate during treatment, how to approach changes in appetite, or what integrative support could look like after active treatment ends.

Your consultation provides time to discuss these concerns, review information you have encountered, and understand the reasoning behind recommendations. The goal is to help you leave with greater clarity about your options and next steps.

Preparing for Your Consultation

If available, bring recent laboratory results, pathology reports, imaging reports, and any tumor genomic or biomarker testing. Include information about your current treatment, previous cancer therapies, and the clinicians involved in your care.

A complete list of medications, vitamins, herbs, and other supplements—including doses when available—can help inform the review of potential interactions.

You are also encouraged to write down your questions, current concerns, and what you most hope to address. For children receiving care, the discussion includes the family’s observations, questions, and priorities.

Personalize Your Support

An integrative oncology plan shaped around your diagnosis, treatment, and priorities.

Nutrition & Day-to-Day Support

Eating patterns, appetite, daily routines, and treatment-related concerns can change throughout cancer care. Nutritional guidance begins with understanding your current experience and identifying the concerns most relevant to you.

Recommendations are individualized and reviewed as your needs change. The focus is on practical support that fits your circumstances and remains compatible with your medical care.

Thoughtful Supplement & Natural Product Review

Supplements and natural products require careful consideration during cancer treatment. Dr. Havens reviews the products you are taking or considering in relation to your medications, diagnosis, and treatment plan.

This discussion considers available evidence, potential interactions, and whether a product has an appropriate role in your care. The purpose is to support informed choices and reduce unnecessary risk.

Coordination With Your Oncology Team

Your integrative oncology plan is developed with attention to the care you are already receiving. When appropriate, Dr. Havens collaborates with oncologists, specialists, and other members of your healthcare team to support coordinated, medically responsible care.

As treatment changes, recommendations may need to be reviewed. Keeping your medication list, supplement use, and treatment information current helps ensure that discussions reflect your latest circumstances.

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Support Your Life Through & Beyond Treatment

Ongoing care that responds to changing needs.

Follow-Up Throughout Your Cancer Journey

Your questions and priorities may evolve during active treatment, while managing advanced or complex disease, or as you transition into survivorship.

Follow-up visits provide an opportunity to discuss your experience, review relevant results, assess how recommendations are fitting into your life, and make adjustments when appropriate. Dr. Havens considers changes in symptoms, medications, treatment, and personal goals when reviewing your plan.

The focus remains on informed decisions, treatment compatibility, and quality of life.

During Active Treatment

While you are receiving cancer treatment, follow-up discussions may focus on nutrition, treatment-related symptoms, supplement questions, and changes in your daily well-being.

Recommendations are reviewed in the context of your current oncology plan. New medications, changes in treatment, or upcoming procedures may affect which supportive approaches are appropriate.

When Care Becomes More Complex

Advanced or complex disease can bring additional decisions and shifting priorities. Dr. Havens offers a space to revisit your concerns and consider supportive care in the context of your broader medical needs.

Your experience and preferences remain central to these conversations. Plans are individualized, with attention to the recommendations of your established healthcare team.

Through Survivorship

After active treatment, you may have questions about ongoing symptoms, nutrition, daily habits, or how to approach your well-being moving forward.

Integrative oncology follow-up provides an opportunity to discuss these concerns alongside the surveillance and follow-up care recommended by your oncology team. Your plan can evolve as your needs, routines, and goals change.