About

My name is Dawn Waldron and I’ve dedicated thirty ‘reclaimed’ years to understanding cancer. At first it was wholly for my own benefit but it morphed into a clinical practice and teaching career that has helped countless others. In 2025, I was surprised and thrilled to receive the Yes to Life Holistic Cancer Care Innovator Award in recognition of my efforts to push the boundaries of holistic cancer care.

Following my own diagnosis in 1997, I knew instinctively that I needed ‘more than medicine’ to stand a chance of seeing my daughter (now in her thirties) grow up. Perhaps you know the feeling? Back then, in those pre-Google days, when medical research was still locked up in libraries, there was no easy way to design an evidence-based health programme, but I was determined to close the gap between what medicine prescribes and nature provides.

After decades of intense study and clinical work, in which time the research on the importance of natural health for cancer has mushroomed (pun entirely intended), I’m saddened by the lack of change within the conventional system. There are some heroic attempts being made by a few pioneers to promote integrative oncology, but it’s clear that a lot of doctors are going to have to retire before any significant shift occurs. 

That’s not great news for cancer patients who generally don’t have time to wait a whole generation for the care they need. So in 2023, I changed my focus from one-to-one consultations to sharing my knowledge and experience with a larger audience. My Substack (and wider teaching work) is focussed on supporting the growing profession of specialist cancer practitioners, and equally to encourage and empower the growing family of long term cancer survivors.

My message can be summed up in a sentence: Don’t let the complexity of cancer blind you to the simplicity of healing.

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