Alternative cancer treatment describes any cancer treatment or practice that falls outside the conventional standard of cancer care, including special diets and exercises, chemicals, herbs, devices, and manual procedures. Most alternative cancer treatments lack high quality evidence supporting their use, and many have been described as fundamentally pseudoscientific. Concerns have been raised about the safety of some purported treatments, with some found unsafe in clinical trials, yet many untested and disproven treatments continue to be used around the world.
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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_cancer_treatments, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_cancer_treatments, lead section
ity evidence supporting their use and many have been described as fundamentally pseudoscientific. Concerns have been raised about the safety of some purported treatments, and some have been found unsafe in clinical trials. Despite this, many untested and disproven treatments are
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