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Vetting the Internet’s Favorite Cancer Cures
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Stephan C. Jahn
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University of Florida
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Department of Medicinal Chemistry and UF Health Cancer Center, UFL, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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scjahn@ufl.edu
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Modern medicine has developed many ways of treating cancer but, unfortunately, we are still a long ways from being able to successfully treat every patient. Some cancer patients may feel that their oncologists are not aware of other options while others may prefer a treatment that has not been approved for use in patients. The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine in cancer treatment is surprisingly large and information regarding these treatments, whether true or false, is spread easily over the internet. In this review I hope to touch on a few of the most “popular†cancer treatments that can be found on the internet. By no means does this review cover even a small portion of those that can be found, and it is not meant to be a comprehensive review on any one of them. It should be viewed as a scientific snapshot of the current laboratory and clinical data that are available for these methods and to serve as a contrast to the hype, insufficient data, and incorrect information that can be found on any number of websites.
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