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  1. Questionable & Unproven Cancer Therapies
  2.  
  3. Barrie R. Cassileth, PhD 
  4. Adapted for the Canadian edition by Richard Hasselback, MD
  5.  
  6. Surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy have been "accepted" cancer treatments for a long time. They are accepted because they
  7. were developed after years of study with
  8. animals and then humans. The studies were
  9. based on logical, scientific principles, and
  10. the treatments were then shown to be
  11. effective against the growth of tumors in
  12. thousands of people.
  13.     These conventional cancer treatments
  14. are responsible for dramatic improve-
  15. ments in survival over the past few
  16. decades. 
  17.