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To: Just My Opinion who wrote (5975)	9/17/1998 8:00:00 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 26163

From the article: In a sharply worded editorial accompanying the reports, she and Dr. Jerome Kassirer, the editor in chief of the journal, criticized supplement makers and practitioners of alternative medicine for advocating unproven and potentially harmful treatments. "Alternative treatments should be subjected to scientific testing no less rigorous than that required for conventional treatments," they wrote. The cases demonstrate that consumers can be harmed by seemingly innocuous herbs and nutritional supplements, In an especially impassioned report, Dr. Max Coppes and his colleagues, pediatric cancer specialists at Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, described two cases in which parents of children with cancer decided to forego chemotherapy and radiation in favor of alternative treatments. One patient was a 15-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system that can be cured in more than 80 percent of patients if standard treatment is begun promptly. But the family rejected conventional therapy and instead used an herbal product. Within a few months the boy had become sicker, and the family wanted to switch to conventional therapy. By then, the disease had progressed, requiring higher doses of chemotherapy that would pose more risk from side effects than the treatment that had been planned originally. "There is no such thing as a safe agent just because the word 'natural' is attached to it. Patients need to be warned and careful."