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When It Comes to Cancer Recovery Support, There’s Only One Choice in Retford

Cancer Support

What Makes Achieve Health Different

If you or a loved one is undergoing cancer treatments, you deserve the best possible care to recover faster, feel stronger, and reclaim your life. At Achieve Health Acupuncture Clinic in Retford, we don’t just offer support — we deliver restorative results through our unique systems: Achieve Restorative Acupuncture (ARA) and Achieve Pulse Diagnosis (APD).

We are not just another acupuncture clinic. Patients choose us because they want the best possible outcomes during and after cancer treatments — and our systems deliver where others fall short.

The Achieve ARA Cancer Care Program

While we do not treat cancer itself, we specialize in helping your body adapt, recover, and thrive during and after conventional cancer treatments.

Our unique three-phase ARA Cancer Care Program is designed to:

  • Accelerate recovery from the harsh side effects of treatments.
  • Restore organ function and retrain your body to heal itself.
  • Empower you to take control of your health and quality of life.

This is not generic acupuncture taught in schools — it’s a strategic, clinically refined system developed through years of practice and patient success.

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OFFICE HOURS

Monday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Tuesday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Wednesday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Thursday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Friday
10:00am - 12:00pm
Saturday & Sunday
Closed

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Grove Coach Road, Retford,
Notts DN22 7HU England UK
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PHASE 1: ARA Recovery Cancer Care

Get Through Treatment, Stay Strong, & Fight Back

Cancer treatments don’t just kill cancer cells — they attack your healthy cells too. That’s why many people struggle to complete their treatments, suffer unbearable side effects, and feel like they’re barely holding on. With our ARA Recovery Care, we make sure you:

  • Recover faster so treatments don’t rob you of your quality of life.
  • Complete your prescribed treatments without feeling broken down.
  • Build resilience to tolerate treatments more effectively.

What To Expect: Your body will still be under attack from cancer treatments, but with ARA, your symptoms won’t rule your life.

How Often: 3–5 treatments per week are usually required during aggressive treatments. Some patients benefit from twice-daily care during high-toxicity phases.

PHASE 2: ARA Restorative Cancer Care

Repair, Rebuild & Take Back Control

After cancer treatments pause, most patients feel lost and depleted. Doctors often offer no plan to reverse the damage — that’s where we come in.

With ARA Restorative Care, we help you:

  • Repair the damage caused by chemo, radiation, and medications.
  • Restore organ function and energy so you feel like yourself again.
  • Reduce reliance on drugs and supplements by retraining your body to self-heal.

What To Expect: Not every symptom can be reversed, but with ARA, you can expect to feel stronger, more in control, and less dependent on medications.

How Often: Most patients need 2–3 treatments per week for 6–12 months, depending on the intensity of prior treatments.

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PHASE 3: ARA Revitalize Cancer Care

Stay in Remission, Stay in Control, Stay in Charge

If you’ve reached remission, the work isn’t over. Staying cancer-free requires a focused strategy to prevent recurrence and keep your body at peak function.

With ARA Revitalize Care, we help you:

  • Optimize your body’s defense systems to prevent recurrence.
  • Maintain organ function so you stay strong and resilient.
  • Build habits that keep you independent and thriving.

What To Expect: Our goal is to make you less dependent on us and more in control of your own health through sustainable routines and habits.

How Often: Typically 1 treatment per week to 1 every other week. Many patients choose to continue long-term for prevention and vitality.

How to Get Started

At Achieve Health, we don’t guess. We use our advanced Achieve Pulse Diagnosis (APD) to see how your body is responding and what needs restoring.

Step 1 – Initial Exam: Using APD and other diagnostic tools, we assess exactly which organs have been damaged and what needs to be restored.
Step 2 – Response Test: Short series of ARA acupuncture treatments to see how quickly your body currently responds.
Step 3 – Personalised Care Plan: A tailored treatment schedule, duration, and support strategy to help you reach your goals.

Call us today to schedule your Initial Exam and take the first step toward recovery.

Conventional Cancer Treatment Options

According to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre there are seven common cancer treatment options:

1. Blood & Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation
  • This treatment is commonly used for blood cancers (ie. leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma)
  • Basically they take new stem cells from your bone marrow/blood and inject them into the diseased area to replace unhealthy cells.
  • To learn more about this procedure go here (https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/diagnosis-treatment/cancer-treatments/blood-bone-marrow-stem-cell-transplants)

Side Effects Of This Treatment:

  • Short-Term Problems: Bleeding, increased risk of infection, fatigue, loss of appetite, mouth sores, hair loss, nausea/vomiting, skin reactions
  • Long-Term Problems: infertility, cataracts, new secondary cancer, organ damage (liver, kidney, lung, heart), bone & muscle weakness
2. Cancer Surgery
  • Surgery is the most common treatment for solid tumor cancers. It’s done to remove tumors and areas that have cancer
  • To learn more about this procedure CLICK HERE

Side Effects of Surgery:

  • Pain & Infection
  • Adverse reactions to anesthesia
3. Chemotherapy
  • This cancer treatment uses potent/toxic drugs to destroy cancer cells or to stop or slow their growth. This is a systemic therapy which means the drugs circulate throughout the body not just to the areas with cancer cells.
  • To learn more about this procedure CLICK HERE

Side Effects of Chemotherapy:

  • Because chemotherapy drugs often can’t distinguish between rapidly dividing cancer cells and rapidly dividing healthy cells, they will cause side effects at the same time that they’re fighting your cancer. Examples are cells that line your mouth and intestines and those that cause your hair to grow.
  • Common Side Effects: Anemia, diarrhea/constipation, fatigue, fever, hair loss, infection, infertility, low blood cell counts, mouth sores, decrease in taste, nausea/vomiting, urinary incontinence, fluid retention/edema, decline in memory and thinking abilities, weakened heart muscle, poor libido, NEUROPATHY/other nerve damage
4. Immunotherapy Cancer Treatments
    • Immunotherapy, a biological therapy, boosts your immune system’s natural ability to fight cancer. Biological therapy is a type of treatment that uses substances made from living organisms to treat cancer. There are three main types of immunotherapy (checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive cell-based therapy, cancer vaccines)
    • To learn more about this therapy CLICK HERE

    Side Effects of Immuniotherapy:

    • Flu-like symptoms, swelling & weight gain from retaining fluid, heart palpitations, sinus congestion, diarrhea, infection, organ inflammation, skin problems, pain from joint inflammation.
5. Interventional Radiology (IR)
  • Interventional radiology involves the use of medical imaging to see inside the body couple with minimally invasive techniques to diagnose and treat cancer, as well as provide relief from symptoms.
  • IR is used to deliver cancer-killing radioactive particles, chemotherapy, heat, cold, or even electric fields directly to tumors.
  • IR types: Ablation, Embolization, Irreversible Electroporation (IRE), Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
  • To learn more about this therapy CLICK HERE

Side Effects of Interventional Radiology:

  • Skin irritation, itchiness & inflamed, hair loss, bleeding, vessel damage/leaking, pancreatitis, portal vein thrombosis, infection, nerve damage, cardiovascular toxicity
6. Radiation Therapy
  • Radiation therapy uses precisely focused, high-energy beams to kill cancer cells.
  • To learn more about this therapy CLICK HERE
7. Targeted Therapy & Precision Oncology
  • Radiation therapy uses precisely focused, high-energy beams to kill cancer cells.
  • To learn more about this therapy CLICK HERE

Side Effects of Radiation Therapy:

  • Changes to the skin and hair in the area being treated, fatigue, loss of appetite, dry mouth, difficulty swallowing, mouth & gum sores, stiffness in the jaw, shortness of breath, breast/nipple soreness, shoulder stiffness, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, incontinence, sexual problems

OFFICE HOURS

Monday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Tuesday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Wednesday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Thursday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Friday
10:00am - 12:00pm
Saturday & Sunday
Closed

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Notts DN22 7HU England UK
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