Most people don’t come to us at the beginning. They come to us at the moment someone in a white coat runs out of options — and they refuse to believe that “nothing more” is the whole truth. This is one of their stories, shared with permission.
She had been living with cancer since 2017. She’d done the research. She knew what questions to ask. She’d heard about RGCC testing — a specialty lab in Greece that analyzes circulating tumor cells and maps a cancer’s biology with a precision most oncologists never see — and she’d been told she should get it done.
The nearest place offering it was in California. Two months away from her family. Astronomical costs before you even reach lodging, food, and the logistics of leaving your life behind. She couldn’t do it. So she waited.
And then, 22 minutes from her house in Lincoln, Nebraska, a clinic opened.
“It was totally God’s plan”
That’s how she describes finding Aletheia — not a lucky Google search or a friend’s referral, but something that arrived exactly when it needed to.
“When I heard about their ability to do that test here, it was totally God’s plan — this incredible thing that came into my life at the perfect time. So I could get it done here and still go home and sleep in my own bed every night, 22 minutes from my house, still able to take care of my family.”
The RGCC results come back from Greece with something remarkable: a map of which supplements, which treatments, even which conventional medications will work best against her specific cancer. Not a general protocol. Not a best guess. “It doesn’t get any more precise than that,” she says.
What conventional medicine doesn’t have time for
She isn’t bitter about her oncology team. She’s clear-eyed about what they do — and what they don’t.
“When they tell you things like, ‘the chemo is not working anymore,’ and ‘this is a treatment, not a cure’ — it’s scary.”
She wanted a backup plan. What she found was something more.
“Aletheia has been more than a backup plan. They’ve come to be the main plan now — supporting me through the chemo journey and getting me back on the road to healing.”
The piece missing from most cancer care isn’t the diagnosis or the treatment. It’s support for the body going through the treatment: the HBOT that reduces bone pain from radiation, the IV Vitamin C, the nurse who can access a port when your veins have given out, the supplements calibrated not to a general cancer patient, but to you, based on your actual tumor biology.
“Conventional medicine gives you the treatments and kind of says, ‘good luck, see you tomorrow.’ Aletheia is able to support your body through that — and then I feel like you get the best result, because you’re combining the two.”
A different kind of doctor
There’s something she says about Dr. Dodge that deserves its own moment.
“Where conventional doctors put an expiration date on your life and aren’t very positive — Dr. Dodge is not that way. He says, ‘I’m gonna see what I can do to support you.’ He doesn’t make guarantees — I don’t expect him to — but he doesn’t talk about the negative. He says, ‘Let’s support your body. Let’s figure this out together.’ He always seems to come up with new options. I can’t imagine this journey without him.”
That’s not a small thing to say. That’s someone telling you a physician changed what the journey felt like.
The part that made the staff cry
When we asked her to share a moment when the team went the extra mile, she paused. “Try not to cry,” she said.
She told two stories. One about the staff showing up to a fundraiser in shirts printed with Bible verses — and then wearing them into her next appointment. One about Jill, our infusion nurse, who took it upon herself to nominate her for a foundation grant that brought a significant sum toward her treatment costs.
“That is not her job description. But she did it.”
Jill is also the only one who can access her port — and her sense of humor in the infusion room, she says, “lightens the mood big time. I don’t like thinking about what could, would have, should have happened. I just want to make the most of every moment.”
What hope actually feels like
People throw around the word hope in cancer conversations until it starts to feel hollow. She uses it differently.
“Being able to come to Aletheia gives me this hope that there’s always something more I can do to heal.”
Not false hope. Not wishful thinking. The specific, grounded hope that comes from having data, having a team, and having a protocol built around your actual biology — and knowing that when something stops working, someone is going to come up with the next option. That’s what “more is possible” means here. Not a promise. A posture. A refusal to stop looking for what else can be done.
What we do — and what we don’t
We want to be honest with you, the way we are with every patient who walks through our door. Dr. Dodge is not an oncologist, and Aletheia is not a cancer treatment center. We will never tell you to leave your oncologist or stop conventional treatment. What we offer is integrative supportive care, running alongside your conventional treatment — not in place of it.
That support can include:
- Physician visits with Dr. Dodge to evaluate your biology and build a precision support protocol
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for oxygenation, immune function, cellular recovery, and real reduction in bone pain from radiation
- Near-infrared light therapy alongside HBOT
- High-dose IV Vitamin C (depending on your program tier)
- RGCC liquid biopsy — the Greece-based test she described — to map your tumor biology and guide targeted supplement selection
- Foundational supplements for immune, antioxidant, and mitochondrial support
- Nutrition coaching throughout your program
- Care coordination with your oncology team
- A nurse who picks up the phone, accesses your port, and nominates you for grants she didn’t have to find
If you’re looking for more
If you’ve been told the chemo isn’t working. If you’re exhausted by side effects no one is helping you manage. If you’ve heard about RGCC and couldn’t access it. If you just want a team that will sit with the full weight of what you’re carrying and keep looking for options — we’d like to talk.
The first conversation is with Olivia, our intake lead. It’s not a commitment. It’s just a conversation about where you are and whether what we do makes sense for your situation.
Because the question she was carrying in 2017 — is there something more I can do? — deserved an answer. Yours does too.
Aletheia Integrative Medical | Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Jaime Dodge, MD — Medical Director. Integrative Oncology Support is a complementary supportive care program. It is not cancer treatment and does not replace the care of a licensed oncologist. Patient testimony shared with permission.