Hi Alex! If you were to do a search for …

Comment on The dark side of alternative cancer treatment by Sarah Best.

Hi Alex! If you were to do a search for “cancer” on this website, you would see that every other article I have written regarding cancer treatment highlights the very issues you mention. I feel very strongly about the health risks associated with conventional treatments – and all the misinformation that makes them appear safer and more effective than they really are.

Still, sadly there ARE practitioners in the alternative health world who prey on the desperation of cancer patients, and get rich doing so. Just because we recognise the issues with conventional treatment doesn’t mean we can’t also acknowledge issues with alternative treatments – on the contrary, we must.

It’s not meaningful to say that success rates of alternative treatments are higher than conventional. WHICH alternative treatments? And where are the stats re success rates coming from?

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The dark side of alternative cancer treatment
I agree Neil – it’s very hard to know. I’ve seen a lot of people go the conventional route and a lot of people go the alternative route, and in both these groups some have done well, others not well.

With all I have seen and read I would say the most important thing for anyone with cancer (or for that matter any health challenge) is to educate themselves, take charge of their health, make themselves and their health their first priority, and take a truly and fully holistic approach. So don’t just change diet and/or do one treatment, but realise that everything and everyone in your environment is affecting your health either positively or negatively, and find out how to make the best choices in all areas of life. It is also essential to have a partner or close friend who is supportive of those choices and will cheer you on.

I know you didn’t ask me that question here, but that’s what your first two sentences brought up for me.


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I’m so sorry to hear of your friend’s experience, Luguo, and hope that the new course of treatment will work for her. You raise some interesting points and I am going to reply to this one as a separate post.


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