
Did the alternative treatments help Fawcett? It is unlikely. As Laurence R. Sands, a Florida surgeon who treats anal cancer patients, told WebMD, there is no scientific proof that such immune system stimulants work. Nevertheless, one of the German doctors involved in Fawcett's case claimed that the treatments had shrunk her tumors and substantially prolonged her life.
Once again, media coverage of Fawcett's case, while ostensibly providing useful information, ran the risk of sending the exact wrong message. Thousands of desperate end-stage cancer patients traveled to Mexico upon hearing Steve McQueen's story. The new destination may now become Germany."
-- Barron H. Lerner, M.D., Ph.D., and professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University, reaching the same conclusions I did about Farrah Fawcett's cancer treatment, on Slate.
So - this may sound like a stupid question - but shouldn't the media be warning people against quackery? Can anyone explain, logically, why that isn't happening?

Read the comments in Slate. One person posted links to scholarly articles about the causes of anal cancer--much more informative than the Slate article and a much more serious and compelling on the takeaway lesson of FF's disease and death rather than her futile foray into CAM.
ReplyDeleteAnal receptive sex.
Promiscuity.
HPV.
Smoking.
Not making any proven allegations about FF herself, because I don't know much about that bf'ing hoor.