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Brain cancer – alternative treatments that work?

1 pointsby akbarnamaover 5 years ago

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gus_massaover 5 years ago
From the Homeopathy section:<p>&gt; <i>MD Anderson researchers worked on a clinical trial with them under the gaze of the FDA. And the trial went well. With 44 patients there was no recurrence in 63.6% of them. The research was covered on the MD Anderson website, but has since disappeared.</i><p>I can&#x27;t find the study anywhere. Is it retracted? The closest version I found is <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtualtrials.com&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Ruta_Booklet.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtualtrials.com&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Ruta_Booklet.pdf</a><p>The study is about preventive treatment after an brain cancer operation to prevent recurrence for patients that don&#x27;t get chemotherapy nor radiotherapy.<p>As far as I can see there is no control group. This is important because the patients that don&#x27;t need chemo or radiation are probably the patients where the doctors think that the operation removed all the cancer and don&#x27;t need more treatment.<p>Also, from the pdf linked:<p>&gt; <i>All patients were followed up for at least one year from the beginning of the treatment with our medicine.</i><p>This is suspicious, one year is too short to be sure that there are no recurrence.