Integrative Oncology Treatment in Sarasota

Integrative oncology is a personalized approach to cancer care that combines conventional oncology treatment with evidence-informed complementary therapies, lifestyle medicine, nutrition, and supportive strategies. The goal is to care for the whole person, not just the cancer, while supporting overall health, quality of life, resilience, and recovery throughout the cancer journey.

At Reveal Vitality, Dr. Angela Jordan takes a comprehensive approach that considers factors such as nutrition, metabolic health, inflammation, immune function, sleep, stress, physical activity, environmental exposures, nutritional status, and treatment-related symptoms when developing an individualized supportive care plan.

Integrative oncology is intended to work alongside conventional cancer care, not replace appropriate treatment from your medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, surgeon, or other cancer specialists.

Coverage varies considerably depending on the service and insurance plan. Many integrative and complementary therapies, specialty laboratory tests, nutritional supplements, and wellness services are not routinely covered by health insurance.

Reveal Vitality is a self-pay practice and does not bill insurance for visits or memberships. Patients may be able to independently submit certain services or laboratory expenses to their insurance company for possible reimbursement, depending on their individual plan. Coverage or reimbursement cannot be guaranteed.

Conventional oncology focuses directly on diagnosing and treating cancer using established treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapies, and hormonal therapies. Integrative oncology expands the focus to include the patient's overall health and well-being before, during, and after cancer treatment. This may include nutrition and lifestyle interventions, evaluation of nutritional and metabolic factors, supportive therapies, management of treatment-related symptoms, and careful consideration of supplements and complementary therapies.

These approaches do not have to be either/or. At Reveal Vitality, integrative care is designed to complement the treatment plan established by the patient's oncology team while providing additional attention to the patient's overall health, treatment tolerance, quality of life, and individual goals.

Yes. Reveal Vitality & Longevity Institute in Sarasota, Florida, provides personalized integrative and functional medicine support for individuals who are undergoing cancer treatment, recovering from treatment, living with cancer, or focused on health optimization following cancer therapy.

Dr. Angela Jordan works with patients to develop individualized supportive plans based on their diagnosis, current oncology treatment, medical history, laboratory findings, lifestyle, nutritional status, and personal goals.

Whenever appropriate, patients are encouraged to continue working closely with their oncologist and other cancer specialists. Reveal Vitality's role is complementary and does not replace oncology-directed medical care.

RGCC, or Research Genetic Cancer Center, is a specialized laboratory that focuses on cancer-related testing using circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and other molecular and cellular technologies. Circulating tumor cells are cancer cells that have detached from a tumor and entered the bloodstream, where they may provide additional information about the characteristics and behavior of an individual patient's cancer.

RGCC offers several types of testing that may be incorporated into an integrative oncology evaluation. Depending on the test selected, RGCC testing can provide information about the presence and characteristics of circulating tumor cells, molecular markers associated with those cells, and how isolated tumor cells respond in the laboratory to various conventional anticancer agents and selected natural or complementary compounds.

At Reveal Vitality, Dr. Angela Jordan, an RGCC practitioner, uses RGCC testing as an additional source of individualized information when evaluating a patient and developing an integrative cancer-support plan. Results are reviewed alongside the patient's diagnosis, pathology, imaging, conventional laboratory and molecular testing, current oncology treatment, medical history, and overall goals.

RGCC testing does not replace a biopsy, pathology evaluation, imaging, standard molecular testing, or recommendations from a medical oncologist. Laboratory findings, including drug or compound sensitivity testing, cannot guarantee how a patient's cancer will respond to a particular therapy in the body. Instead, the information may be used as one additional tool to help inform discussions about personalized and integrative supportive care.

Reveal Vitality offers access to specialized RGCC testing as one component of a broader integrative oncology evaluation. Depending on the clinical situation, RGCC testing may evaluate circulating tumor cells and provide laboratory information about characteristics of those cells.

Tests such as Oncotrace may be used to assess circulating tumor cell findings, while Onconomics Plus testing evaluates the response of isolated tumor cells to various therapeutic agents in a laboratory setting. This information may provide an additional data point when discussing individualized supportive strategies.

RGCC results should be interpreted within the context of the patient's pathology, imaging, molecular testing, medical history, and conventional oncology recommendations. These assays are not a substitute for standard
diagnostic testing or established oncology treatment-selection methods, and laboratory sensitivity findings do not guarantee that a therapy will produce the same response in a patient's body.

Dr. Jordan reviews these findings with patients and helps them understand how the information may fit into the larger picture of their cancer care.

Yes. Working alongside conventional cancer treatment is a central principle of integrative oncology.

A patient's integrative plan may be coordinated around chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, hormonal therapy, surgery, or other oncology-directed treatments. Careful coordination is
particularly important because supplements, herbs, antioxidants, medications, and complementary therapies can potentially interact with cancer treatments.

Dr. Jordan reviews the patient's oncology regimen when developing recommendations and encourages open communication between the patient and their oncology team. The goal is to create a thoughtful, coordinated plan that supports the patient without interfering with conventional treatment.

Reveal Vitality provides integrative and supportive care for adults with many different cancer diagnoses. Rather than limiting care to a single cancer type, Dr. Jordan evaluates each patient's individual diagnosis, stage of disease, conventional treatment plan, medical history, laboratory findings, symptoms, and goals.

Patients may seek integrative support for cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovarian, and other gynecologic cancers, prostate, lung, pancreatic, gastrointestinal, and other solid tumors, as well as for support during survivorship and post-treatment recovery.

The specific services appropriate for each patient depend on the individual clinical situation. Integrative care at Reveal Vitality is designed to support, not replace, the recommendations and treatment provided by the patient's oncology specialists.