It breaks my heart to see so many people sharing bogus health information on social media. Add to that, the conspiracy theories surrounding the government suppressing the cures for cancer and other diseases. Scientists have families too.
Sure, there’s the odd mad researcher who will go rogue for some reason. Take Dr. Henry Heimlich, for example. He faked study results for his Heimlich Maneuver and it became the go-to method to help someone who’s choking. The medical community found him out and renamed it the Abdominal Thrust. But it works. And most people still call it after its discoverer, who was a bit of a fame whore.
But just when you think you can’t read anything about health on the Internet without conducting your own research to determine whether it’s true, comes one woman’s recovery from terminal cancer. Doctors in Maryland used immunotherapy on the Florida woman after her late-stage breast cancer spread to her liver and other treatments failed to stop it. They used her own T-cells to attack the tumour and she’s been disease-free for two years. Doctors call her case “remarkable”.
(Read the full story HERE)
It’s remarkable because immunotherapy isn’t as successful as they had hoped – yet. All of the other women in the clinical trial died. And the success rate with prostate cancer, so far, is about 10%. But this treatment method is experimental and being improved all of the time.
Something else that I’ve learned is that the name of a cancer only refers to where it originated, not its type. Different kinds of tumours behave in their own way. But beware the miracle cure unless it’s attached to a reputable source or a confirmed medical study. And never give up hope.