Alternative Cancer Treatments

Alternative Cancer Treatments for More Info!!

If you are seriously considering alternative cancer threatments, you must take your time. There are a number of good treatments. But, even the best alternative cancer treatment only works on a minority of people who use it correctly. If you are already interested in a particular alternative cancer treatment, keep reading to understand the pros and cons of the treatment selection method you used. All treatment selection methods are covered below, make sure you didn't make a serious mistake.

Ordering information can be found by going to the Comparison table and clicking on the Monthly Cost for your alternative cancer treatment or supplement. To reduce the number of treatments to consider, use the Comparison table. The numbers under the Effectiveness column link to the Effectiveness sections. If the treatment is ineffective on some types of cancers, they are listed in that section.

Adding new supplements causes confusion and cancer patients can usually not resist adding new supplements when they learn about them.

A LITTLE RECOGNIZED DANGER

A little recognized danger in medical treatment is the failure of doctors to advise patients of the importance of getting the most basic body systems in balance while they are undergoing treatment for any health problem including cancer.

"Alternative medicine" has become the politically correct term for questionable practices formerly labeled quack and fraudulent. Loose Definitions Cause Confusion

To avoid confusion, "alternative" methods should be classified as genuine, experimental, or questionable. Genuine alternatives are comparable methods that have met science-based criteria for safety and effectiveness. Experimental alternatives are unproven but have a plausible rationale and are undergoing responsible investigation. Questionable alternatives are groundless and lack a scientifically plausible rationale. The archetype is homeopathy, which claims that "remedies" so dilute that they contain no active ingredient can exert powerful therapeutic effects. Most methods described as "alternative" fall into the second group. There is no alternative medicine. There is only scientifically proven, evidence-based medicine supported by solid data or unproven medicine, for which scientific evidence is lacking. We recognize that there are vastly different types of practitioners and proponents of the various forms of alternative medicine and conventional medicine, and that there are vast differences in the skills, capabilities, and beliefs of individuals within them and the nature of their actual practices. There are not two kinds of medicine, one conventional and the other unconventional, that can be practiced jointly in a new kind of "integrative medicine." In the best kind of medical practice, all proposed treatments must be tested objectively. "Integrative" medicine is purportedly combining alternative and mainstream approaches to medicine. The claim is that integrative medicine provides the best of both approaches. The biologists would "integrate" creationism with Darwinian evolution, while the chemists would integrate alchemy into modern scientific chemistry. It's not a good idea to integrate nonsense with valid scientic knowledge.

The "alternative movement" is part of a general societal trend toward rejection of science as a method of determining truths. In line with this philosophy, "alternative" proponents assert that scientific medicine (which they mislabel as allopathic, conventional, or traditional medicine) is but one of a vast array of health-care options. "Alternative" promoters often gain public sympathy by portraying themselves as a beleaguered minority fighting a self-serving, monolithic "Establishment."