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Alternative Medicine and Cancer Survival

The use of alternative medicine instead of conventional cancer treatments is associated with worse survival rates.

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Jan 10, 2026

What evidence links refusal of conventional cancer treatment in favor of alternative therapies to survival outcomes?

Multiple large retrospective cohort studies find that patients who decline conventional cancer treatments and rely instead on alternative medicine have worse survival, in some analyses more than doubl...

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