Re: Alternative Cancer Treatment Folklore

[Guest guest]

Good advice. Coincidentally I just had my great aunt email me that her friend

worked with someone who had terminal cancer. She drank copious amounts of aloe

vera juice and is totally fine now. I get these all the time. Strange. What

works for one my not work for another that's for sure! All great stuff though.

I still love to hear it. What I always wonder is how people decided on this

'one' thing and stuck to it. Is it the one thing that worked? I find people

with cancer (myself included) tend to use many many different approaches and

often flit from one thing to another. I am a little amazed by someone just

trying one thing and sticking to it as I would be worried that it might not

work. Maybe that's the key. Deciding it's going to work and then just doing

it?? That doesn't always work for people either though..belief, faith. I wonder

if anyone keeps track of the folklore.

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> Alternative Cancer Treatment Folklore. A lay

> literature search of alternative cancer

> treatments includes a plethora of stories of

> those who experienced fantastic results doing

> treatments that most would consider

> outlandish.

[Guest guest]

Has anyone heard of the effectiveness of Hemp Oil? It sounds great on the

surface, I bought some for someone at my church and I'm waiting for results.

Below is a link to a youtube video if anyone is interested.

http://current.com/items/88846133/run_from_the_cure_the_rick_simpson_story.htm

If I can find someone that it worked on, I'll start growing it in my garden and

handing it out free.

There are alot of scams and claims out there, It would be good to list the ones

that don't work.

God Bless

Ken O.

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> This was to have been included in the list of

> causes of failures in alternative cancer

> treatments, but as I wanted to add an additional

> comment I am posting it separately.

>

> Alternative Cancer Treatment Folklore. A lay

> literature search of alternative cancer

> treatments includes a plethora of stories of

> those who experienced fantastic results doing

> treatments that most would consider

> outlandish. These include those who consume

> extremely large amounts of aspartame, stevia,

> flax seed oil, rosemary, selenium, and any number

> of herbs, and vitamin or mineral supplements –

> often in toxic amounts. These stories are

> usually unverifiable, and even if they were, they

> may have been used by only a single

> individual. To try these things on oneself can

> be seen as desperate and foolhardy.

>

> Nonetheless, it is easy to understand the

> attractiveness for the worried patient. So, if

> attempted, there are ways to minimize risks.

>

> * Decide in advance how much time one is

> willing to give to such a therapy – three weeks? Two months?

>

> * Determine in advance how results will be

> assessed. It is very important that one gets a

> coherent picture using a variety of objective and subjective measures.

>

> * Never use unrelated extreme regimens

> concurrently. If the treatment does have some

> merit we rarely know the true mechanism(s) of

> action. Using additional extreme stressors

> concurrently is likely to nullify any advantage.

>

> * Use the time of the trial to work on follow up Plan B and Plan C.

>

> * Before trying an extreme regimen ask

> around the alternative cancer forums to find

> others who have experience with such a

> regimen. Don't lose sight of the fact that

> others who have tried the treatment might no

> longer be around to answer questions.

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

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>

> This was to have been included in the list of

> causes of failures in alternative cancer

> treatments, but as I wanted to add an additional

> comment I am posting it separately.

>

> Alternative Cancer Treatment Folklore. A lay

> literature search of alternative cancer

> treatments includes a plethora of stories of

> those who experienced fantastic results doing

> treatments that most would consider

> outlandish. These include those who consume

> extremely large amounts of aspartame, stevia,

> flax seed oil, rosemary, selenium, and any number

> of herbs, and vitamin or mineral supplements –

> often in toxic amounts. These stories are

> usually unverifiable, and even if they were, they

> may have been used by only a single

> individual. To try these things on oneself can

> be seen as desperate and foolhardy.

>

> Nonetheless, it is easy to understand the

> attractiveness for the worried patient. So, if

> attempted, there are ways to minimize risks.

>

> * Decide in advance how much time one is

> willing to give to such a therapy – three weeks? Two months?

>

> * Determine in advance how results will be

> assessed. It is very important that one gets a

> coherent picture using a variety of objective and subjective measures.

>

> * Never use unrelated extreme regimens

> concurrently. If the treatment does have some

> merit we rarely know the true mechanism(s) of

> action. Using additional extreme stressors

> concurrently is likely to nullify any advantage.

>

> * Use the time of the trial to work on follow up Plan B and Plan C.

>

> * Before trying an extreme regimen ask

> around the alternative cancer forums to find

> others who have experience with such a

> regimen. Don't lose sight of the fact that

> others who have tried the treatment might no

> longer be around to answer questions.

>

>

>

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