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Cancer patients who use alternative medicine die sooner, study finds
Cancer patients who choose alternative medicine over standard, proven cancer treatments are more likely to die, researchers reported Thursday.
Complementary medicine did no apparent harm if people used it alongside conventional surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the researchers found. But when people opted out of proven treatments to choose herbs, homeopathy or other alternative treatments, they were twice as likely to die of their cancer.
“It’s shocking, the lack of comparative data that’s out there,” said Dr. James Yu of the Yale Cancer Center.
Source: NBC News