Alternative cancer “treatments” disproven
A dire warning for cancer patients who choose to discard evidence based treatment for Alternatives to Medicine. These alternatives such as Laetrile (B17), Gerson therapy, Chaparral and Shark cartilage are not only “unproven” but in fact when proper studies have been conducted, they have been discredited and can be considered disproven.
Patients who use such alternative to treatments have a poorer survival time, even after controlling for type and stage of disease summed up in this review article:
Alternative Cancer Cures: “Unproven” or “Disproven”?
So for patients diagnosed with cancer, would you go for proven, unproven or worse still, disproven treatment?
The choice is yours.