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Alternative cancer treatments proven to help

12 December 1996

Cancer represents a healer's greatest challenge. It operates like an alien inside your body. Its biochemical laws are different from yours. It's able to completely disarm your immune system - in effect, creating an immunological shield to protect itself - all the while it fires out substances that weaken the integrity of your cells and reproduces out of all control.

Although many of the most promising alternative cancer therapies have been around for most of this century, there is a peculiar lack of scientific study assessing them.

This situation is more a comment on the orthodox camp's paranoia about employing any new treatment against cancer (and thus admitting defeat or letting go of a multibillion-dollar industry) than a statement about the efficacy of the treatments in question. Despite this climate of suppression, a number of alternative treatments have been the subject of some properly designed laboratory and clinical research. Althoug...

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