Unproved Cancer Remedies - A Survey of Use in Pediatric Outpatients

Author(s): Ballentine, R., Ballentine, L., vanEys, J.

Journal/Book: JAMA. 1977; 238: 1536-1538.

Abstract: Sixty-nine patients or parents of patients were interviewed during a five-week period. Each interviewee was given a questionnaire listing commonly recommended unproved drugs, diets, and miscellaneous treatments, and was instructed to respond to each remedy as follows: Have you tried it? Have you considered trying it? Has it been recommended by someone else?Six patients (8.7%) had tried at least one unproved remedy, four (5.8%) considered trying some other remedy, and recommendations to seek other remedies had been made to 17 patients (24.6%).Laetrile and assistance from faith healers were the remedies named most frequently.

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