Huge news. Complementary medicine is associated with a 2-fold risk of death in a study of 2 million people https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2687972 …
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The primary cause of this was treatment refusal: people who used complementary medicine were less likely to use effective treatment, so they died more
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#wherestheharm: it's right here. Complementary medicine causing people to refuse conventional meds that work, and killing them in the process2 replies 11 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
Also worth noting that, based on the survival curves, this difference was big in both absolute AND relative termspic.twitter.com/H7R5gA4VrW
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More than 80% of the people who did not use complementary medicine were still alive at 7 years, compared to less than 70% of the complementary medicine users That is ENORMOUS
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Also, should note that this was a study of people with cancer specifically, not of complementary medicine more generally
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If you want to read more, blog post on this study is uphttps://medium.com/@gidmk/complementary-medicine-kills-35e47d3f518d …
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