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The media often deals harshly with somebody who has cancer who turns down medical treatment, turns to natural cancer therapies and subsequently dies. The success of a natural cancer treatment is evaluated on whether the person who’s ill survives a natural lifetime. But this is not the case for medical treatments. Medical treatments such like surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy often use much “softer” proof of success.

When comparing results it’s important to ensure that like is compared with like.

Success in chemotherapy and radiotherapy is oftentimes measured, not in terms of improved longevity but in terms of the regression of the tumor. There is an assumption that whether or not the tumor reduces in size that the sick person should do much better in the longer term. This idea looks to be common sense, but it is having not been proven to be the case.
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