Hers is a subtype of alternative cancer cure testimonial that I like to call the skipped adjuvant therapy testimonial. It is a subtype in which it was really the surgery that cured the patient, but she attributes her survival instead to the quackery she chose. @Chrest_brett 1/ https://t.co/JWH7iikLWi
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But how can this be? Well, most people don't know that in breast cancer the surgery is curative. The radiation therapy then decreases the risk of local tumor recurrence, while chemotherapy decreases the risk of recurrence elsewhere in the body (distant recurrence). 10/
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Sure, there can be exceptions. Triple negative breast cancer, as well as hormone receptor-negative/HER2-positive can sometimes be "cured" with chemotherapy alone, but that's the exception. Of course, Gerson therapy cures nothing. 11/
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In any event, all a woman like Ms. Shemirani accomplishes by refusing adjuvant chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy is to decrease her chances of survival after successful surgical extirpation of her tumor by roughly 30%, give or take. 12/
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I'm glad Ms. Shemirani is alive and doing well, but, make no mistake, she is alive in spite of her bad decision, not because of it, contrary to what she believes and preaches. 13/
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Also make no mistake, Gerson protocol is utter quackery, complete with five coffee enemas a day. 14/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-not-so-beautiful-untruth-about-the-gerson-therapy-and-cancer-quackery/ …
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Indeed, reliance on the Gerson protocol to treat their cancers led to the deaths of Jess Ainscough (a.k.a. The Wellness Warrior) and her mother. 15/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-gerson-protocol-and-the-death-of-jess-ainscough/ …
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So, by promoting the Gerson protocol, Ms. Shemirani is tempting women with breast down a path that will decrease their chances of surviving their cancers. 16/
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Worse, by stating publicly she believes that her mastectomy made no difference in her surviving her cancer, that she thinks she would have done just as well without surgery, she is promoting a message that could lead to women with curable breast cancer dying unnecessarily. 17/
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Her excuse does not change the bottom line. Women who follow her advice will increase their chances of dying of their cancers—by a huge amount if they decide not to have surgery. 18/ https://twitter.com/fitnjuicing1/status/1112473180323627009 …
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None of that, unfortunately, stops Ms. Shemirani from promoting "what has worked for me." Bennett mind that the"informed choice" she touts is in reality misinformed consent. 19/
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I realize that Ms. Shemirani believes she is doing good, but she is not. Far from it. Her advice about breast cancer treatment, if followed, will at best decrease a woman's odds of survival. At worst (foregoing surgery), it will lead to her very unpleasant death. 20/20
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