Supportive Cancer Care Focused on Resilience, Recovery, and Quality of Life

A cancer diagnosis affects more than the body. Cancer and its treatments can impact energy, digestion, nutrition, sleep, immune function, emotional wellbeing, and overall quality of life.

At Peninsula Integrative Medicine, integrative oncology provides personalized supportive care to help patients navigate the physical and emotional challenges that can occur before, during, and after cancer treatment. We work alongside your oncology team to provide evidence-informed recommendations focused on supporting resilience, managing treatment-related challenges, optimizing health, and improving quality of life.

Our goal is not to replace conventional cancer care, but to provide additional support that helps patients feel stronger, more informed, and better supported throughout their cancer journey.

What Is Integrative Oncology?

Integrative oncology is a patient-centered, evidence-informed approach that combines conventional cancer treatment with supportive therapies designed to address the whole person.

This approach may include nutrition, lifestyle medicine, mind-body therapies, targeted supplementation, functional testing, and other supportive strategies that complement conventional treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, and targeted therapies.

Every cancer journey is unique. Our providers evaluate each patient’s diagnosis, treatment plan, symptoms, health history, and personal goals to create individualized recommendations that support physical health, emotional wellbeing, and long-term wellness.

Integrative oncology support may begin at diagnosis to help patients prepare for treatment, continue throughout active treatment to support resilience and symptom management, and extend into survivorship to promote recovery and long-term health.

How Integrative Oncology Supports Patients

Cancer treatment can place significant stress on the body. Our approach focuses on supporting the areas of health that may be impacted throughout the cancer journey, including:

• Energy and vitality
• Nutritional status
• Digestive health
• Immune resilience
• Inflammation balance
• Sleep quality
• Stress regulation and emotional wellbeing
• Treatment recovery
• Survivorship and long-term wellness

Care plans are personalized based on your diagnosis, treatment history, current therapies, symptoms, and individual goals.

Why Patients Seek Integrative Oncology Support

Many patients seek additional support to help them better navigate the physical and emotional challenges of cancer treatment. Common goals include:

• Supporting energy and stamina
• Managing treatment-related side effects
• Optimizing nutrition
• Supporting digestion and appetite
• Improving sleep
• Managing stress and anxiety
• Supporting immune resilience
• Promoting recovery after treatment
• Developing a long-term survivorship plan

Conditions and Concerns We Commonly Support

Our providers support patients throughout many stages of the cancer journey, including:

• Newly diagnosed cancer patients seeking supportive care
• Patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, or other treatments
• Cancer survivors focused on recovery and long-term wellness
• Cancer-related fatigue
• Treatment-related digestive concerns
• Neuropathy support
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Sleep disturbances
• Stress and emotional wellbeing
• Inflammation support
• Survivorship care

Advanced Diagnostic Testing and Personalized Health Assessment

Depending on your individual needs, your provider may recommend targeted testing to better understand your health status and support personalized care.

Evaluation may include:

• Nutritional and Functional Health Testing
  • Vitamin and mineral testing
  • Nutrient status evaluation
  • Inflammatory markers
  • Metabolic health assessment
  • Gut health evaluation

• Genetic and Cancer Risk Testing
  • Genetic risk assessment to evaluate inherited cancer risk factors when clinically appropriate
  • Multi-cancer early detection testing, such as the Galleri test, which uses a blood test to screen for signals associated with multiple types of cancer and may be considered for appropriate patients in coordination with their healthcare team
  • Advanced oncology testing, including tumor profiling and molecular testing options such as RGCC testing, which may provide additional information about cancer biology and potential treatment considerations

Testing recommendations are individualized and based on your diagnosis, personal history, treatment plan, and goals.

Personalized Integrative Cancer Support

Every cancer journey is different. Our providers create individualized supportive care plans designed around your needs and goals. Support may include:

• Nutrition optimization
• Targeted supplementation
• Digestive support
• Lifestyle medicine strategies
• Stress reduction techniques
• Sleep support
• Support for treatment-related symptoms
• Recovery and survivorship planning
• Coordination with your oncology team

Collaborative Cancer Care

Integrative oncology works best as part of a coordinated healthcare team.

Our providers collaborate with oncologists and other healthcare professionals to ensure supportive recommendations complement your existing treatment plan.

Whether you are newly diagnosed, actively undergoing treatment, recovering after treatment, or navigating survivorship, our goal is to provide compassionate, personalized care throughout every stage of your journey.

Which Provider Should I See for Integrative Oncology?

If you are seeking supportive care during or after cancer treatment:

• Dr. Rebecca Moragne, ND
  • Best fit for: Patients seeking cancer support, treatment-related digestive concerns, nutrition optimization, and survivorship care.
  • Dr. Moragne provides personalized integrative support focused on helping patients maintain strength, support recovery, and improve quality of life throughout the cancer journey.

• Dr. Morgan Schuster, ND
  • Best fit for: Patients seeking supportive cancer care focused on resilience, inflammation balance, nutrition, and whole-body wellness.
  • Dr. Schuster takes an individualized approach to understanding how nutrition, lifestyle, immune health, and metabolic factors may influence wellbeing during and after cancer treatment.

Not sure who is the right fit?

Our team is happy to help match you with the provider whose experience best aligns with your health goals. Contact our office and we can help guide you toward the right next step.

Call (650) 485-2758, Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. or send us a message!