#Cancer patients benefit from complementary and #alternativemedicine #therapy, “even potentially instead of standard #anticancer therapy,” @JAMAOnc web editor writes. https://goo.gl/EUsnCU
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Replying to @Westbrook_U @JAMAOnc
This is irresponsible. Cc
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How on earth are alternative "therapies" an appropriate substitute for science-based medicine for cancer patients? cc
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Replying to @Takethatdoctors @MTL613 and
I did not mean to imply that CAM interventions should be favored by clinicians. I meant that some pts may favor them, despite the lack of evidence to support them.
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Replying to @JackWestMD @Takethatdoctors and
I believe your intentions were good, but surely you have to see how quacks will latch onto that soundbite and declare it to be The Last Word? IMO,we're way overdue for real experts to stop tiptoeing around the elephant in the room and start addressing CAM for the BS it is.
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Replying to @IamBreastCancer @Takethatdoctors and
It is also worth noting that I've been planning a series of patient pages for
@JAMAOnc meant to refute clearly detrimental but highly touted approaches like alkaline therapy to debunk them definitively, so docs can give to pts along w/their stated recommendation against them.3 replies 0 retweets 13 likes -
Replying to @JackWestMD @IamBreastCancer and
@CAonline used to do a series like that called "Unproven methods of cancer treatment." It was two-page refutations of various cancer quackeries. It ran for over 30 years, from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, then stopped. I've always wondered why.2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @JackWestMD and
Overwhelmed? Or maybe they got tired of refuting the same old nonsense time and time again. Has any quack modality EVER been discontinued?
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Well, it's true that they did publish refutations of laetrile on more than one occasion, although as I recall they were separated by at last a decade or more...
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Replying to @gorskon @JackWestMD and
And yet laetrile is still being heavily marketed, likely by many of the same quacks and more, using many of the same bogus claims.
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