Thanks for coming – I’m guessing you are probably either a specialist cancer practitioner or a curious patient recovering from cancer and from the effects of treatment. I’m both! Although my diagnosis happened almost thirty years ago I’ve never stopped trying to increase my chances of survival through the diet and lifestyle choices I make. And I’ve made it my mission to help others do the same.
My focus is on turning cancer around and teaching cells to behave normally again. We can argue for a long time about where and when cancer starts. Is it with long term inflammation, old age, DNA mutations, an unhelpful virus, obesity? All of these things have been shown to be strongly associated with cancer development, but the first ‘irreversible’ step in cancer development is when the cell flips from being a mature, differentiated energy producing cell focussed on gene expression, and reverts to a more stem-like molecule producing cell focussed on growth and proliferation. This is the first key step in cancer initiation. This switch is something that happens in reverse during normal cell development and so it follows that it must be reversible. Happily, there’s lots of science to support this idea and that’s what I’m interested in.
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.
When I was first diagnosed with advanced triple negative breast cancer, in 1997, it was almost impossible to get reliable information about complementary health approaches: now we’re drowning in it. There is more advice out there than we can ever take on board, much of it highly technical, and not all of it safe for cancer thrivers. More NAD+ anyone?
Sharing my expertise
When I stepped back from clinical practice after twenty years as a nutritional therapist specialising in holistic integrative oncology, I decided to share what I’d learned on Substack as a semi-retirement plan. I wasn’t expecting what happened next. Thousands of readers and dozens of invitations to speak and teach flooded in. It turns out there is a pressing need for leading edge health information that takes the specialised needs of cancer patients into account.
I don’t write about repurposed drugs, or hyperbaric oxygen, and I won’t be urging you to fly to Mexico for coffee enemas, or trek to Germany for dendritic cell transplants. These things have their place, but they are not within my realm of expertise. I’m more interested in the simple remedies found in nature: food, sunshine, exercise, sleep, herbs, spices, and maybe a few well-chosen supplements.
Closing the Gap
My Substack is all about taking the latest cancer research, which is often created with the sole purpose of inventing new drugs and technologies, and working out how that translates for those of us who want to use the power of diet and lifestyle to change health outcomes. We are aiming to use the findings of mass market research to understand the personal implications for simple, sustainable health. Although we’ll be juggling some complex ideas, the aim is to keep our feet on the ground, our eyes on the evidence, our medicine in the kitchen, and our focus on a happy and healthy future. Always looking from a survivor perspective, taking care to avoid any ideas that might be unsuitable for the post-cancer cellular environment.
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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