Friday 13 May 2016

More women with breast cancer are choosing useless alternative therapies over chemotherapy, warn scientists

More women with breast cancer are choosing useless alternative therapies over chemotherapy, warn scientists Women suffering from breast cancer are turning to alternative and complementary therapies while rejecting chemotherapy, scientists have warned.

Researchers at Columbia University tracked chemotherapy uptake rates in women who had been recommended the treatment by their doctors. Among women who were taking non-traditional medications such as complementary therapies, they were found to be more likely to reject medical advice to undergo chemotherapy. The Independent

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