--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote: > >Johns Hopkins is now suggesting that prevention is better than that type > of "cure"---chemotherapy successful because it killed the > cancer cells, but the patient died as well! >
This is the problem we are faced with today. The above erroneous statement is made despite the fact that it was clearly pointed out that the forwarded email was a hoax. Johns Hopkins has not issued such an update on cancer. The hoax email is full of bogus assertions fraudulently attributed to Johns Hokins. Here is a link to a thorough rebuttal of that fraud from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center: http://www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org/index.cfm/cID/1684/mpage/item.cfm/itemID/1016 Here are some pertinent excerpts: QUOTE Email Hoax: "Cancer Update From John Hopkins" Updated April 2009 Mythbusting at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center STATEMENT: EMAIL HOAX REGARDING CANCER Information falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins called, "CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS" describes properties of cancer cells and suggests ways of preventing cancer. Johns Hopkins did not publish the information, which often is an email attachment, nor do we endorse its contents. The email also contains an incorrect spelling of our institution as "John" Hopkins; whereas, the correct spelling is "Johns" Hopkins. For more information about cancer, please read the information on our web site or visit the National Cancer Institute's web site at www.cancer.gov. Please help combat the spread of this hoax by letting others know of this statement. UNQUOTE QUOTE The Truth about the “Cancer Update” Email It has become such a problem, that the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, and individual cancer centers like the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have posted warnings on their Web sites. Emails offering easy remedies for avoiding and curing cancer are the latest Web-influenced trend. To gain credibility, the anonymous authors falsely attribute their work to respected research institutions like Johns Hopkins. This is the case with the so-called “Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins.” The gist of this viral email is that cancer therapies of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy do not work against the disease and people should instead choose a variety of dietary strategies. Traditional therapies, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, work. The evidence is the millions of cancer survivors in the United States today who are alive because of these therapies. We recognize that treatments don’t work in every patient, or sometimes work for awhile and then stop working, and there are some cancers that are more difficult to cure than others. These problems are the focus of ongoing cancer research. We’ll go through each statement in the email hoax and provide real responses from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center experts. UNQUOTE .......Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Please read the entire point by point rebuttal from Johns Hopkins. Cheers, Santosh
