Venturis Clinic is not a cancer treatment center. Nothing described on this page treats, shrinks, or cures cancer, and nothing here is a substitute for the care of your oncology team. What we do is supportive: helping with the day-to-day side of treatment and recovery — energy, strength, nutrition, sleep and nerve symptoms — in coordination with the physicians treating your cancer.
We ask every patient to keep their oncologist informed of everything they do here, and we are glad to send notes directly.
The part nobody schedules time for
Your oncology team is focused on the cancer. That is exactly what they should be focused on, and Oklahoma has good ones — Stephenson, INTEGRIS, Oklahoma Cancer Specialists, Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma.
But there is a second set of problems that comes with treatment, and it tends to get about four minutes at the end of an appointment. Fatigue that does not lift after treatment ends. Numbness and burning in the hands and feet that started with chemotherapy and has not gone away. Weight and muscle you cannot get back. Not sleeping. Not knowing whether the supplements in your cabinet are helping, doing nothing, or interfering with your treatment.
That is the part we work on.
We see people from across Oklahoma — Oklahoma City, Edmond, Norman, Moore, Yukon, and regularly from Tulsa, Lawton, Stillwater and out of state. Some are still in active treatment. Most have finished and found that finishing was not the same thing as being better.
Who this is for — and who it is not
This is likely a fit if you:
- Have finished chemotherapy or radiation and are not back to yourself
- Are in active treatment and want help with side effects, with your oncologist’s knowledge
- Have peripheral neuropathy that began with chemotherapy
- Have lost weight or muscle and cannot rebuild it
- Want someone to look honestly at your supplements and tell you which ones to stop
This is not a fit if you:
- Are looking for an alternative to chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or immunotherapy. We will not help you do that, and we will tell you so plainly. The single worst outcome in this field is a patient who delays effective treatment.
- Have not yet been evaluated by an oncologist. Get that done first.
- Have new or worsening symptoms that have not been assessed. Those belong with your oncology team before they belong with us.
What we actually do
Natural IV infusions
Everything we infuse is a vitamin, mineral or nutritional supplement. No prescription drugs, no ozone, no methylene blue, no peptides. If you have been to a clinic that mixes those categories together under one heading, this is a narrower and more boring menu — deliberately.
IV nutrient therapy is used here to deliver vitamins and minerals when oral intake or absorption is limited, which is common during and after treatment. Nausea, mouth sores, taste changes, gut side effects and appetite loss all interfere with getting nutrition in the ordinary way.
What that gets you that a drip bar does not: we run nutritional labs first, correct what is documented as actually deficient, and re-check. That is verifiable, individual, and a different exercise from picking a bag off a menu because it sounds restorative. If your labs do not show a deficiency, we will tell you that, and we will not sell you the infusion anyway.
On high-dose vitamin C specifically, because people ask. The National Cancer Institute’s current position, updated May 2025, is that “the FDA has not approved the use of high-dose vitamin C as a treatment for cancer.” NCI notes it has been generally well tolerated in clinical trials, and that results in humans are mixed — some trials show improved quality of life and reduced chemotherapy toxicity when added to standard treatment; others show no clinical benefit, including a 2024 trial in prostate cancer.
The mechanism is plausible, tolerability is good, and the human efficacy question is unresolved. We would be cautious about any clinic that tells you more than that. To be direct about our own position: we do not offer high-dose IV vitamin C as a therapy for cancer, and we will not describe it as one.
If you are in active treatment, talk to your oncologist before starting any IV or oral supplement. Some interact with chemotherapy. We wrote up what the evidence actually says here.
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
Numbness, tingling, burning or loss of sensation in the hands and feet that started with chemotherapy. It is one of the most common reasons people come to us, and one of the most poorly served — nearly every neuropathy clinic in Oklahoma is built around diabetic neuropathy, which is a different problem with a different natural history.
We will tell you the uncomfortable part first. ASCO’s guideline on CIPN says that for established CIPN, outside a clinical trial, no recommendation can be made for exercise therapy, acupuncture, scrambler therapy, gabapentin, pregabalin, topical gels, tricyclic antidepressants or oral cannabinoids. The one thing it says clinicians may offer for painful CIPN is duloxetine — a prescription medication, and a conversation for your oncologist.
It also contains a recommendation almost nobody in this field repeats: clinicians should not offer, and should discourage use of, acetyl-L-carnitine for the prevention of CIPN — harms outweighing benefits, on high-quality evidence. It is sold across the supplement aisle as nerve support. The full story is here. If it is in your cabinet, bring the bottle.
So what do we do? We assess it properly, we help with function and safety — balance, falls risk, grip, footwear, what you can still do — and we are straight with you about what the evidence supports and what it does not. If someone promises to reverse chemotherapy nerve damage, they are ahead of the evidence.
Nutrition — the practical version
Two things matter more than everything else in this category, and neither is a supplement.
Protein and muscle. The American Cancer Society’s guidance is “avoiding excess body weight (overweight and obesity) and maintaining or increasing muscle mass through a combination of diet and physical activity.” People in treatment often need more protein than usual, for tissue repair and immune function. Losing muscle during treatment is common, consequential, and partly preventable. We measure it and work on it.
The supplements you are already taking. This is where we probably add the most value, and it is free advice we will give you whether or not you become a patient. Bring us the bottles. All of them. Most people are taking something worth stopping, at least during active treatment.
Movement
If you do one thing from this page, do this one.
The SIO–ASCO 2024 guideline on cancer-related fatigue — built on 113 randomized trials — gives exercise a strong recommendation for reducing fatigue both during treatment and after it ends. Alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based programs, it is one of only three interventions to earn that grade in both settings.
The American Cancer Society puts numbers on it: 150–300 minutes per week of moderate-intensity activity — the level where you can talk but not sing — or 75–150 minutes of vigorous activity, plus muscle-strengthening on two or more days a week.
Those numbers are a destination, not a starting line. If you are two weeks out of chemotherapy and walking to the mailbox is the day’s achievement, the walk to the mailbox is the program. We build from where you are. We also wrote about the exercise trial you may have seen headlines about, and what those headlines got wrong.
Mind-body — meditation, mindfulness, yoga
This is the category most likely to be dismissed and least deserving of it.
Mindfulness-based programs carry a strong recommendation in the SIO–ASCO fatigue guideline, both during and after treatment. In the SIO–ASCO guideline on anxiety and depression, mindfulness-based interventions are the strongest recommendation in the document, with high-quality evidence for improving anxiety and depression symptoms during and after treatment. Yoga follows, with the evidence concentrated in breast cancer populations. Tai chi and qigong carry a strong recommendation for fatigue during treatment.
A 2025 multi-site trial compared mindfulness-based cancer recovery against tai chi and qigong in 587 participants. Both improved mood disturbance — and, usefully, whether participants chose their program or were randomized into it made no meaningful difference to the outcome.
The practical translation: pick the one you will actually do. That is not a soft recommendation, it is what the data supports. We will help you find real programs, including ones we do not run. Several are free.
Therapies people ask us about that we do not provide
Some of the most common questions we get are about things we do not offer. We would rather answer them here than have you find a clinic that will tell you what you want to hear.
Mistletoe
Mistletoe extract is used widely in Europe, where several preparations are manufactured and sold as injectable prescription drugs. In the United States the situation is different. The National Cancer Institute states that these injectable drugs “are not available commercially in the United States and are not approved as a treatment for people with cancer,” and that “at present, the use of mistletoe cannot be recommended outside the context of well-designed clinical trials.”
NCI also notes that while reports of improved survival or quality of life have been common, “many of the studies had major weaknesses that raise doubts about the reliability of the findings.”
We do not provide mistletoe therapy. We are not going to tell you it treats cancer, and we will not source it around the FDA. If you want to explore it properly, the route is a clinical trial, and we will help you look for one.
Ozone, methylene blue and peptides
We do not use any of these as cancer therapies. Ozone in particular: federal regulation (21 CFR 801.415) states that ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive or preventive therapy.
What we do not do
- We do not treat cancer, and we do not offer anything as an alternative to oncology treatment.
- We do not tell you to stop or delay chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or immunotherapy.
- We do not claim that anything here improves your odds of remission, prevents recurrence, or makes chemotherapy work better.
- We do not sell hope by the bag.
Everything we infuse is a vitamin, mineral or nutritional supplement. We do not prescribe or administer prescription drugs, and we are not an oncology practice.
Coming from out of town
We are at 7917 N May Ave in Oklahoma City, and a real share of our patients drive in.
| Coming from | Distance | Typical drive |
| Edmond | 12 mi | 15 min |
| Norman | 25 mi | 30 min |
| Stillwater | 65 mi | 1 hr 15 |
| Lawton | 85 mi | 1 hr 30 |
| Tulsa | 100 mi | 1 hr 45 |
| Wichita, KS | 160 mi | 2 hr 40 |
If you are driving more than an hour, two things are worth knowing before you commit. We can usually do intake, labs and a first treatment in one day — say so when you book. And we can review your records before you travel, so you are not driving two hours to be told you are not a candidate.
Frequently asked questions
Will this interfere with my cancer treatment?
That is the right question to ask, and the honest answer is that some things can. Antioxidant supplements may reduce the effectiveness of some chemotherapy drugs. St. John’s wort lowers blood levels of irinotecan, imatinib and docetaxel. This is exactly why we ask you to keep your oncologist informed of everything you do here, and why we are glad to send notes directly to them.
Do I have to stop seeing my oncologist?
No, and if any clinic suggests you should, leave. We work alongside oncology. We do not replace it.
Can any of this replace chemotherapy or radiation?
No. Nothing on this page is a cancer treatment, and we will not support a decision to forgo effective treatment.
Is Dr. Philipose an oncologist?
No. Dr. Alvin Philipose is a DC — a Doctor of Chiropractic — with an ICCP certification in integrative cancer care. Venturis is not an oncology practice, we do not diagnose or treat cancer, and we do not prescribe or administer prescription medications. What we infuse is limited to vitamins, minerals and nutritional supplements. Your oncologist remains the person treating your cancer, and we work alongside them.
What if I am still in active treatment?
Many of our patients are. It changes what is appropriate and it means closer coordination with your oncology team, but it does not rule you out. Bring your treatment schedule to the first visit.
I have finished treatment and everyone says I should feel better. I do not.
That is the most common thing we hear, and it is the reason this page exists. Finishing treatment and recovering from it are two different timelines, and the second one gets far less attention than it deserves.
Written and reviewed by Dr. Alvin Philipose, B.S., B.S., DC, ICCP
Last reviewed: 20 August 2026
The information on this page is provided for general educational purposes only and has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and it is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Certain therapies described are investigational and are not FDA-approved to treat any specific condition. Individual results vary.
This page describes complementary supportive care only. It does not describe treatment for cancer. Always follow the guidance of your oncologist. If your symptoms are new, worsening, or concerning, contact your oncology team first.