Re:Alternative Cancer Treatment Folklore

[Guest guest]

:

You've presented a very comprehensive and logical course of action for someone

wishing to try alternative treatment. This observational and empirical approach

is scientifically correct.

However, when I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I did all the research I could

on what vitamins, supplements and herbs might help fight the cancer. I felt I

did not have the time to do a scientific analysis of promising treatments one at

a time, because if the first one or two didn't work, it would likely be too late

for me.

So, like many people, I expect, I tried everything I could all at once. At this

point, having proof of the efficacy of one treatment using the scientific method

was not as important to me as finding SOMETHING that might work. The down side

of this approach, as you know, is if something makes you better, you don't know

specifically which supplement or treatment worked. That was a trade-off I was

willing to make, and while I still don't know which, if any, alternative

treatment I tried helped, I am still alive and in remission three years later.

In some cases, ignorance is bliss.

Mike

[Guest guest]

Great news!! We did the same with my husband.

" Mike " <mmoors@...> wrote:

>

> :

> You've presented a very comprehensive and logical course of action for someone

wishing to try alternative treatment. This observational and empirical approach

is scientifically correct.

>

> However, when I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I did all the research I could

on what vitamins, supplements and herbs might help fight the cancer. I felt I

did not have the time to do a scientific analysis of promising treatments one at

a time, because if the first one or two didn't work, it would likely be too late

for me.

>

> So, like many people, I expect, I tried everything I could all at once. At

this point, having proof of the efficacy of one treatment using the scientific

method was not as important to me as finding SOMETHING that might work. The

down side of this approach, as you know, is if something makes you better, you

don't know specifically which supplement or treatment worked. That was a

trade-off I was willing to make, and while I still don't know which, if any,

alternative treatment I tried helped, I am still alive and in remission three

years later. In some cases, ignorance is bliss.

> Mike

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