Re: Now It's Cancer's Turn To DIE!



J <analyse@invalid> wrote:


The way I see it, physicians are best at countering alternative medicine
(unconventional therapies) claims.
Maybe, but its tiresome after doing it for many years, and one often
ends up being yelled at or even libelled by types that have an ax to
grind or are pushing their products. See the recent Peter Moran thread
as an example.

alt.support.cancer's Charter says:
If it's more about medicine, post to sci.med.diseases.cancer (so I've been
posting about medicines and clinical trials here, unless specifically asked
about on alt.support.cancer)
Making outrageous or unsupported claims is prohibited.
Advocating treatments that have been disproven scientifically or have not
successfully completed all phases of a clinical trial is inappropriate.
Encouraging patients to stop or avoid conventional proven cancer treatment in
favor of unconventional and unproven treatment is inappropriate.

I refer people here if they want to read about medicines.
I refer people here if they want to ask you about, for instance liver mets.
I refer people here if they want to ask radiation therapy questions.
And I refer people here to see discussions about unconventional ad/or
experimental and/or investigational treatments.
Its the last ones that give rise to problems. Difference between
unconventional and investigational/experimental: how the drug/herb/laser
etc is tested. If its been thru the conventional mills and been shown to
be effective no problem. No problem discussing it (but not selling it)
if its still in a phase II or III trial as they are on the correct path.
If for example someone by accident discovers that mud in a particular
river is fantastic against acne or arthritis, why not mention it in the
relevant alt group? If it cured his aunt's piles stick it in the
relevant alt group. If however it cured his son of leukemia, this (and
the alt cancer group) would be the relevant groups. Now mentioning what
happened is fine, we would all draw our own conclusions (such as: no
more camping in the Rhone valley if the mud is THAT radioactive
already!) But if the guy buys a whole stretch of the river and starts
marketing its mud here: No! Then it has to go thru the whole procedure
of testing, dosage etc.
--
madiba
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