Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
I don't like hearing people say, alt. cancer treatments don't work, and one example is Steve Jobs…a billionaire, who used alt. cancer treatments unsuccessfully.
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FOLLOWING the untimely death of Steve Jobs there has been continuing speculation about the extent to which his treatment was critically delayed by early efforts to employ alternative medicine. Fortune magazine reported the Apple founder had tried to …
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Medical journalist Sandra Ryan says ineffective alternative remedies, when used instead of mainstream medical treatment, can pose a massive risk to lives.
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LiveScience.com – Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs and author Christopher Hitchens, who both recently succumbed to their respective cancers, were among a select few cancer patients to have their entire genomes sequenced. Doctors were hoping to tailor each man’s cancer treatment by identifying genetic mutations within the cancer that might be treatable with certain drugs — an approach known as personalized medicine.
ADELAIDE, Australia — Alternative medicine is unethical, criminal and likely contributed to the death of Apple boss Steve Jobs, an expert says. Professor Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of complementary medicine, was in Adelaide on Monday to …
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ALTERNATIVE medicine is unethical, criminal and likely contributed to the death of Apple boss Steve Jobs, visiting professor Edzard Ernst says. The world's first professor of complementary medicine was in Adelaide yesterday to speak at the Australasian …
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| The biographer of Steve Jobs recently revealed that the Apple founder had died regretting that he spent nine months trying to treat his cancer with alternative medicine before agreeing to chemotherapy and surgery. Melbourne oncologist Ranjana … See all stories on this topic » |
 The Age |
Many readers pointed out that neither allopathic nor complementary and alternative medicine can give a 100% guarantee for a cure. Some readers recounted friends and family members whose cancer was helped by radiation and/or chemotherapy, while others …
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| David Gorski says it's very unlikely that Steve Jobs' detour into alternative medicine had much of an effect on the ultimate course of his cancer. There's been a lot of debate on the Web about whether or not Steve Jobs signed his own death certificate, … See all stories on this topic » |
 MinnPost.com (blog) |
It's written by Dr. David Gorski, a surgical oncologist, cancer researcher and associate professor of surgery at Wayne State University, who is well known (and heavily disliked) by many alternative–medicine practitioners for his evidence-based …
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And while it's impossible for any outsider to judge whether Jobs' faith in alternative medicine “likely shortened his life,” as the New York Daily News put it, or instead just improved the quality of a life that was already beyond saving, …
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