#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
@gorskon@DocBastard@HealthWatch123@IamBreastCancerpic.twitter.com/WA1txyM1wg
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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
There are serious researchers at eg Moffitt who believe sodium bicarbonate or Tham can be promising anti-cancer agents. If you can prove them wrong, I would be very interested in it!
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Replying to @larshaakon @JackWestMD and
I don't need to prove them wrong, they need to prove themselves right, which they cannot do because there is no evidence to back their claims.
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He really doesn't understand what quacks are saying when they say "alkaline" treatment cures cancer, does he? Hint: It's not what researchers at Moffitt are saying—or researchers whom I personally know who've published in this realm are saying either.
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