How Yale Medicine Falsely Stigmatizes All Alternative Cancer Treatments

Executive Summary

• Yale Medicine makes claims about alternative cancer treatments based on overgeneralization without any intention of educating readers.

Introduction

The cancer industry offers many ineffective and costly treatments to customers. To keep this flow of patients coming, they must critique anything the medical establishment approves. This article analyzes an article in Yale Medicine that does just that.

Yale Medicine on Natural Cancer Cures

This is from the article Natural Cancer’ Cures’: What Are the Risks?

Yale Medicine Assertion #1: Miracle Cures Are The Only Alternative to The Approved Treatments?

Skyler Johnson, MD, a former Yale School of Medicine chief resident of therapeutic radiology, knows firsthand what it’s like to experience the fear and confusion that come when a family member is diagnosed with cancer. His wife, Laurie, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at age 27. Dr. Johnson—then still in medical school—recalls typing her diagnosis into Google and being bombarded with claims of miracle cancer “cures.” Fortunately, Dr. Johnson, who is part of Yale COPPER Center for cancer research, had the medical training to recognize good sources of cancer research. But, he and his colleagues are concerned that many people who are overwhelmed by a cancer diagnosis do not.

There is no doubt that miracle cures are advertised for cancer — however, Yale is not just trying to critique miracle cures but any therapy that is not part of the money train for Yale Medicine.

Yale Medicine Assertion #2: People Forego or Delay Cancer Treatments

“It’s an alarming trend,” he says. “Some patients choose to forego or delay cancer treatments that have been proven to prolong life and/or cure their cancer, in favor of unproven therapies.”

What are the effective treatments that Dr. Johnson is referring to? We cover the effectiveness of both Chemotherapy as well as the effectiveness of Radiotherapy. We have yet to look in-depth into surgery. Still, Yale Medical and the rest of the medical establishment don’t have much to offer cancer patients, and the medical establishment actively hides this fact from patients.

Yale Medicine Assertion #3: Miracle Cures Are The Only Alternative to The Approved Treatments?

Patients are looking to alternative answers, trying Chinese herbs, vitamins, minerals, meditation, tai chi, yoga, bee venom, and extreme dieting. Trying these nonmedical approaches instead of conventional, doctor-recommended cancer treatments (chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and hormonal therapy) is called alternative cancer treatment.

It might be — but so is using methods focused on improving the immune system. The medical establishment does not concentrate only unless it is related to some on-patent and costly patent immunotherapy drug. This is a repetition of a false dichotomy of highly effective chemotherapy (a false claim) or Chinese herbs and tai chi.