permit the cancer to progress to an advanced stage beyond the opportunity for cure. What is lost is the patient's life.
For patients with advanced cancer and for whom orthodox treatments can offer only relief of symptoms, or for those with a type of cancer for which standard treatments are of limited value, false hope from these unorthodox therapies can rob them of the potential value of what time they have left. Furthermore, the costs involved in useless treatments can leave a surviving family in severe financial difficulties.
