Earlier this month, cancer quacks everywhere were touting a study that suggests that chemotherapy administered before breast cancer treatment can stimulate the spread of cancer, pointing to it as evidence that chemotherapy doesn't work and even makes cancer worse. In reality, the study was far more nuanced. It didn't show that chemotherapy doesn't work (quite the contrary) but does point to ways we can make chemotherapy more effective.
If there's one thing that proponents of "integrative medicine" (or, as it's been called in the past, "complementary and alternative medicine," or CAM) take great pains to emphasize whenever defending their integration of prescientific and pseudoscientific medicine into medicine, it's that they do not recommend using "alternative medicine" instead of real medicine but in addition to real medicine.
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What Prostate Cancer Taught Me About Our Fiscal And Physical Health Code Blue
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Prostate cancer!
That was my diagnosis. Stomach, meet floor. That one word brings to mind the many who get it, die from it, survive it, and lots of fundraising and research to “find the cure.” Mention Medicare/Medicaid and healthcare costs rising every year, and our loss of national productivity is creating a crisis looming before us. The health and wealth of our nation are a Code Blue!
I tried my hand at self-care but ended up in the E.R. at the end of August. My PSA was 595 on August 27th, 2020; my father’s PSA started at 400, and he lasted 15 years with it. But times have changed for the better.