Alternative therapies?

Question

I see so many people around here talking about all natural therapies, herbal remedies, and things like diet changes as a cure to cancer.

I have to ask...

The people who go around advertising this:

Would you use this in your own cancer treatment?

Is there even one person around here who did use something like that and make any progress?

Ive been through cancer treatment, and I just dont see it.

Answer 1

i don't believe any of that crap.
There's research and facts behind chemo, radiation etc.
I know there are labs out there who do research on these alternative treatments. just I'm not willing to try any of it until there is conculsive research and facts from a legitimate lab proving it all.

Answer 2

I agree that people who argue for using alternative - ie 'unproven' treatments for cancer are invariably people who have not had cancer themselves.

I think most of them would see things very differently if faced with a life-threatening illness and a choice between harsh but proven methods of treatment and relying on juice, herbs or restrictive diets to deal with it.

In my experience and from reading Q&A on this forum, it is usually a case of people having read case histories of those who claim to have been miraculously cured by alternative therapies, forgetting that the reader has no proof that the person ever had cancer in the first place, and certainly no proof that they are 'cured'. It is usually to such anecdotal evidence that believers in alternatives resort when faced with rational argument.

Also people undergoing conventional treatment often try complementary therapies at the same time, and some then credit the complementary therapy for their improvement - this is what has happened when you see the phrase 'my/her/his doctors were amazed!'.

Answer 3

Some people just need to have things to believe in. Like religion for instance.