file.newsgroup.med.58108 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: "CAN'T BREATHE"
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Paul Schmidt) writes:
>I think it is important to verify all procedures with proper studies to
>show their worthiness and risk. I just read an interesting tidbit that
>80% of the medical treatments are unproven and not based on scientific
>fact. For example, many treatments of prostate cancer are unproven and
>the treatment may be more dangerous than the disease (according to the
>article I read.)
Where did you read this? I don't think this is true. I think most
medical treatments are based on science, although it is difficult
to prove anything with certitude. It is true that there are some
things that have just been found "to work", but we have no good
explanation for why. But almost everything does have a scientific
rationale. The most common treatment for prostate cancer is
probably hormone therapy. It has been "proven" to work. So have
radiation and chemotherapy. What treatments did the article say
are not proven?
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