This sympathetic article in a recent issue of the Medical Journal of Australia looks at how practitioners can help their patients make sensible decisions? In the age of the internet and Doctor Google patients are looking for dietary options online and doctors continually see patients who choose extreme dietary and alternative treatments for potentially curable cancers and don’t turn to the medical profession until they are quite ill and their cancer has spread and become incurable. "As an example, a woman claimed to have cured herself of thyroid cancer by eating pineapples."Haines. Ian E. (2015). Negotiating the complex maze of claims of dietary cures for cancer. Medical Journal of Australia, 203 (4): 196-197.
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