Re: Sanitation, Not Vaccine, Best Way to Improve Public Health, Says Poll of BMJ Readers



On Jan 26, 9:08 pm, "vernon" <stillhere@anhere> wrote:
"Peter Moran" <pmo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:45ba9717$0$16552$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



"PeterB" <p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

There are many very aggressive methods that seem, statistically to work.

It depends on what you mean by "works." The shrinkage of tumor mass
does not correlate reliably to either remission or survival benefit.
And what's true for some cancers is not true for others. In the
absence of a control group, associating endpoint data with an implied
intervention is aleatory, as is reviewing variable responses in two or
more treatment groups, aggregating the data, then suggesting a
correlation. If the variability in outcomes was truly significant,
you can be sure they would have documented it.

I
have seen little evidence that one works much better than the other. I put
PeterB therapy in the same category.

There are several reasons I would choose natural medicine over
chemotherapy to treat cancer. First, doctors using laetrile are
amazed at its palliative effects. Second, the effect of chemotherapy
is broadly immuno-suppressive. Since host immunity is crucial to
surviving cancer, it isn't rational to believe that such drugs will
improve survival rates in the majority of cancers. Some evidence, in
fact, suggests that these drugs induce cancer on their own. Third,
nutrients used adjunctively in cancer treatment are verifiably
pallilative, however palliation resulting from chemotherapy itself
remains completely unproven, in my view.

Assuming that no one in this thread HAS cancer, the primary point should be
prevention or getting it in its very infancy.

Absolutely.

What is absolutely sickening is the refusal by all with their pet theories
to recognize cancer for what it is and not have major efforts at prevention
or constant , aggressive resistance.

Absolutely sickening and unconscionable.

Yep. Drug commercials outnumber public service announcements on
smoking by at least 10-to-1, and when was the last time you saw one on
the importance of nutrition?

PeterB

p.s. I'll need to address Moran's evasive response a bit later.

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