Unfortunately, vulnerable cancer patients turn to these charlatans every year, hoping for a miracle treatment to purge them of their monstrous disease.
But as a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute makes painfully clear, as a treatment for cancer, alternative medicine does not cure; it kills.
They found 280 subjects diagnosed with cancer in 2004 who used alternative medicine and matched them with 560 control subjects who received conventional treatment.
(Below: The figure shows the surviving fraction of patients using alternative medicine [solid line] and conventional medicine [dashed line].).
After five years, 78.3% of subjects who received conventional treatments were still alive, compared to only 54.7% of subjects who used alternative medicine.
Even more startling, breast cancer patients who used alternative medicine were five times more likely to die.
For cancer patients who opt for treatment with alternative medicine, the harm is death. »
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