Coming across this article Black Listed Cancer Treatment Could Save Your Life prompted me to dig up and update some old bookmarks.
The field of alternative therapies and cures is an interesting one that has polarized pro and con adherents into fanatically opposed camps.
I became seriously interested in the topic a decade ago after meeting an Austrian post-graduate student specializing in altertnative medicine studies. He raised some interesting points - the first one being that the majority of officially certified doctors could not name a single book on alternative healing when asked. From studies he conducted in hospitals in Austria and Poland he found that, in the case of diseases for which vaccines had been developed, patients were equally divided percentage-wise among those who had and had not been immunized.
He lent me the book 'A Time to Heal: Triumph Over Cancer - The Therapy of the Future' by Beata Bishop. It was a book that had a profound effect on me and introduced me to the concepts of the Gerson method for treating cancer. I highly recommend it. (The book is available for purchase here, and,no, I am not affiliated with the seller nor do I earn commission on its sale). It is interesting to note that a few years ago, the website for the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, Austin, cited below contained much more detailed information on alternative cures than at present. Back them, nearly a decade ago, it reported that the Gerson method had a higher survival rate for melanoma than mainstream allopathic medicine.
The need for more research in alternative cures cannot be overstated. Even the Quackwatch site concedes as much. For example, it would be good to settle once and for all a reports of a potentially lethal glitch concerning the coffee enemas used in the Gerson method. The problem allegedly arose in people with too many accumulated toxins in their systems whose livers went into shock from too-rapid detoxification. In years of reading about this method I was to find the use of coffeee enemas to be an on-again, off-again proposition.
In any case, here are some links for further reading on alternative therapies for cancer:
Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Complementary/Integrative Medicine Resources
BC Cancer Agency - Uncomventional Therapies
Alternative Cancer Treatments Information Center
Natural Cancer Therapies
CureZone
Ralph Moss
Also check out:
Time for a fresh look at complementary medicine
Shirley's Wellness Cafe
Alternative and Self-Help Cancer Therapy Programs For People and Animals
Alternative Cancer Therapies FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Non-Harmful (Natural) Cancer Therapies and Treatments (NCT) FAQ
Non-Harmful (Natural) Cancer Therapies and Treatments (NCT) FAQ
News Target: Alternative Medicine
The History Of Quackery
Quackwatch
An FDA Guide to Choosing Medical Treatments
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