Fr. Ivo C. de Souza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hodgkin's disease is incurable.
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:27:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> I have no idea why this type of dangerous false information regarding public health and safety is being spread in this forum. How far will this parade of ignorance be taken to mislead Goanetters on this important matter about their lives? 80% of patients with Hodgkin's Disease today are cured with proper modern medical treatment. Please see the following information provided by the American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_4x_How_Is_Hodgkin_Disease_Treated.asp?sitearea= Mario adds: As the lone voice of reason, truth and peace on Goanet, I strongly suggest that medical matters, especially for serious illnesses and diseases, be left to physicians and medical scientists. No physician is going to prevent you from drinking chicken soup until you start clucking yourself, but only in conjunction with serious medications for serious illnesses. If you start clucking or growing feathers clearly you have gone too far:-)) The Padres and other fervent religious types should perhaps restrict themselves to advocating for the benefits of prayer and hope and a positive attitude that are known to assist patients undergoing medical treatment, but in conjunction with, not as an alternative to, real medicine, which should be left to REAL physicians. As a non-physician I have learned that the claims on behalf of alternative medications are really the placebo effect on the mind in action. Rather than try to explain this, I will suggest some articles I found interesting: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2582669 http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro03/web1/ckaminski.html http://www.ncchta.org/execsumm/summ303.htm
