About

I am Dr. Beverly Cowan-Toffoli, a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM), retired clinician, and esophageal cancer patient. I built this site because I couldn’t find what I needed when I was diagnosed — research that was honest about evidence strength, cited its sources, and didn’t treat integrative medicine as either magic or quackery.

I hold a doctorate in acupuncture and oriental medicine and practiced clinically for many years. During my practice I used therapeutic lasers extensively — that clinical experience, combined with a Swedish text on laser therapy I acquired about fifteen years ago, is the foundation of my understanding of photobiomodulation. I am a published author in peer-reviewed medicine. My paper “Electroacupuncture in the Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy” was published in Medical Acupuncture (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.) in 2010 under my professional name Beverly K. Cowan, DAOM.

In September 2025, at nearly 75, I was diagnosed with esophageal adenocarcinoma — a 7.2cm tumor confined to the esophageal wall. I completed five weeks of chemotherapy and 24 proton radiation treatments at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Post-treatment PET/CT showed a 76% reduction in metabolic activity. CA 19-9 returned at less than 0.6 U/mL. An endoscopy two months later showed no tumor. Complete response confirmed.

I now run a self-designed integrative protocol focused on cancer stem cell elimination and long-term immune support. My treating physicians know what I do. They have not endorsed it.

This site is my public research notebook. Everything is cited. Evidence strength is noted honestly — I distinguish between RCT-backed components and preliminary or preclinical ones. I share compliance gaps and uncertainties. I am not your doctor. I am not prescribing. What I do is what I have researched for my own situation. Any decision to apply these protocols is entirely yours, made with your own physicians.

NCCAOM certified in acupuncture, Chinese herbology and herbal formulas - certification lapsed upon retirement.

This is not my first experience with intergrative oncology. In 2020 I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, had a hysterectomy, declined brachytherapy, used a self-designed protocol and have been cancer free for six years.

I live in Trenton, Georgia.