Alternative Cancer

Some articles on alternative:

Alternative Medical Systems - Alternative and Evidence-based Medicine - Efficacy
... Many alternative therapies have been tested and certain CAM interventions do have evidence ... Lists of the Cochrane Reviews on alternative medicine including summaries of the results sorted by type of therapy (updated monthly) are made ... In addition, in most countries, alternative treatments (in contrast to pharmaceuticals) can be marketed without any proof of efficacy—also a disincentive for manufacturers to ...
Mind-body Exercise - Efficacy
... Alternative therapies lack the requisite scientific validation, and their effectiveness is either unproved or disproved ... Many of the claims regarding the efficacy of alternative medicines are controversial, since research on them is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed ... The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine points to confusions in the general population - a person may attribute symptomatic relief to an otherwise-ineffective therapy just because they are taking something (the ...

Famous quotes containing the words cancer and/or alternative:

    “I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?”
    —Sarah N. Cleghorn (1976–1959)

    “If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
    —Graham Greene (1904–1991)