Alternative Cancer Cures - The Validity of Alternative Therapies

There are hundreds of unofficial therapies that promise to cure
cancer. Most likely almost all of these have some validity in the
sense that the basic principles on which they hold are fairly sensible
and sincere. However, their potential effectiveness could be very
different and dependent on many variables, sometimes not perfectly
controlled. Compared to the official, are therapies whose validity is
much less "scientific," meaning they are treatments that often have
not passed the experimental stages according to the criteria of
scientific standards. Often, the preliminary research is done on a
number of subjects statistically not significant, the results are not
always controlled in time, as well as long-term side effects. In most
cases these treatments, whose effectiveness, are not being documented
in scientific journals, remain tied to the confidence of those who
propose or direct testimonies of patients who use it.
This can lead to the conclusion that therapy does not undertake an
equivalent recognized need to make a mistake.

Why abandon the certain for the uncertain?

But perhaps it would be fair to ask first what is certain?

When the "certain" is represented by a path that leads inexorably to
death, then it may make sense to choose a different path? This is the
real question that needs to be answered.
It is unfair to criticize those patients sentenced to death by a
highly unfavorable prognosis who find the courage to leave the main
road for something uncertain?
In most cases, to rely on a non-official therapy, means, blindly
relying on the doctor who offers no guarantee on the validity of the
treatment. One wonders whether the side effects may occur in the short
or long term, one can always count on a 'high level of medical care in
case something goes wrong, since he is no longer treated in a public
facility, and more than anything else, one wonders whether the
treatment will be effective.

But therapy is not recognized, it is said that it can not be
effective. There have been several cases with advanced disease treated
with alternative therapies that have received such significant
benefits both in terms of increased survival and in terms of quality
of life. However in all cases the improvements and unexplained
healings have been considered by medical science not directly related
to the effectiveness of therapy, but due to "miracles." In medicine
the idea that alternative therapies are entirely ineffective in the
treatment of cancer is unfortunately widespread. It is a sort of
"belief," a basic assumption, an absolute dogma for which it seems
impossible to accept the idea that an alternative cure can actually
heal properly tumors.

But when there is nothing to lose and all to gain if the cure works,
then a change of mind is something we need to have.