Path to alternative therapies littered with obstacles

WHEN Diane Klenke was told five years ago that she had pancreatic cancer, she was given three months to live. "The doctor told me to go home and put my affairs in order and that was it," Ms. Klenke, now 52, remembered. Instead of taking that advice, Ms. Klenke, who lives in Green Bay, Wis., decided to fight. She researched other doctors and alternative therapies until she hit upon the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care in Evanston, Ill., which uses an approach of traditional and holistic therapies to treat cancer patients. After undergoing intense chemotherapy along with proper nutrition, nausea and stress management therapies at the Block Center, Ms. Klenke's cancer went into remission and has stayed that way. So where is this anecdote heading? Glad you asked.