Robert Ryan

This is the article that's being cited as the study for 2% chemo therapy success rates: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15630849/ To be honest one of the major concepts that drew me to look into the success rates, aside from the above article, is the "food as medicine" idea. A part of me would love to find out that the human body is capable of being free of disease with healthy living and avoiding chemicals and processing that people are claiming contribute majority to the sickness were experiencing today. The other part of me thinks though, like hypervalent_Iodine stated above, that a lot of it is just another way for representatives to make money off of these alternative treatments which may or may not work. What I've been reading recently do include a lot of the typical alternative medicine arguments, such as vegan dieting and herbal treatments or people claiming wheatgrass juices everyday cleansed their body of cancer. Those are often without much citation of study though. Aside from that. are articles about new upcoming treatments like magnetic nano particles which cause the cancerous cells to self destruct. http://www.nanoprobes.com/newsletters/2013-08-Curing-Cancer-with-Magnetic-Nanoparticles/ I'll have to look up specific studies for different cancer treatments. Honestly I knew there were different types of cancer and various organs that could be affected but it never occurred to me to look into them separately. Seems obvious in hindsight though.

I say most of the studies are biased because while they may list individual examples or studies they never actually address the basic question originally posed at the beginning of the article: for instance, in one of the alternative treatment side articles they had one example of an individual being cured of cancer after switching to a vegan diet and removing highly processed sugars from his system. They gave several cases in which other people were cured alternatively, without any citations, then went on demonizing modern medical cancer treatment as being ineffective and only practiced due to the money making aspect of its use. They didn't go into any real detail on the alternative treatments nor did they post any information about Chemotherapy aside from the original article claiming 2% chemo success rate. On the other hand I read an article which was seeking to counter these claims and in fact went into a lot of the factors you mentioned, such as type of cancer, health of the person being treated and the resulting treatment based on the above as well as cost. Throughout the article they likewise demonized alternative treatment proponents at nut jobs and crank cases and never actually gave any statistics as to the argument it was originally set out to trounce, which was the claim that chemotherapy is effective 2% of the time. They described the development and medical breakthroughs which chemo therapy treatment but never actually addressed the statistic value of chemo therapy succes. There were estimates and percentages of the cancer types found and the frequency off cancer among age groups, but no actual success rates. Ideally what I would one is a flat, graph or list of success rates for the different types of cancer and treatments practiced for those cancers. I would hope to see as much information as possible; cancer type, location, treatment used, treated patients orgnanizec by age group with general health, attitude and time treated. I believe this list work be very extensive and long but it's still what I think I need to figure out the truth.

Hey, I'm newly registered to this forum and honestly one of the main reasons I registered was to find a larger community for questions like the one I'm about to post. Hopefully someone can help me find a straight, accurate answer when I have trouble. That being said lately I've been seeing a lot of articles and arguments over the effectiveness of chemo therapy on cancer as opposed to other forms of treatment, usually natural or alternative methods. When I try to find straight statistical information on the success rates of chemotherapy and alternative treatments I usually end up looking at articles which are biased on one side and don't give actual statistic or percent values of success rates or treatment on either side. Has anyone here ever seen the statistics for chemotherapy success rate in the U.S. or alternative medicine? Any thoughts on either side of the debate are welcome as well.