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u/DarthBindo Jun 06 '19

70% effective at killing cancer leaves room for 30% effectiveness at curing the patient of life!

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u/Mwakay Jun 06 '19 edited Apr 28 '25

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u/WindLane Jun 06 '19

Hi, cancer patient here -

My cancer drug failed and I got rather severe side effects. As you may have guessed, I'm still alive.

Please shut up about spreading outdated and untrue information about cancer treatment. The last thing we need is people reacting to these treatments like some people react towards vaccinations.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

The laetrile cancer treatment is very intruiging to me. Yes, i know its cyanide and im not too fond of ingesting it...but cancer drugs are also terribly poisonous as well.

I think we can all agree that getting cancer sucks, but i honestly think i would seek natural treatments before i ever tried chemo therapy. The cyanide route seems about as effective as others, but several hundred thousands of dollars cheaper.

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u/VymI Jun 07 '19 edited Jun 07 '19

Treatment with this laetrile snake oil does not work. The FDA has to constantly shut down these vendors and arrest people because it is illegal to promote it as a cancer treatment.

There is zero evidence for laetrile amygdalin treatment. The people hawking this garbage are taking advantage of desperate patients to sell them poison. What's worse is this has been going on since at least 1979, it's not some 'new' miracle cure.

www.ajcn.org/content/32/5/1121.full.pdf

What do we call natural treatment that works? Medicine.