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Yet another bogus cancer cure - they keep on coming, exploiting people's fears.

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Elegran Sun 16-Oct-16 12:37:00

In the news today. This was in a health food shop in Bournemouth, not a way-out community of hippies in California!
Investigation over cancer 'cure' GcMAF in health food shop

I don't need to say it, do I? No-one on Gransnet would be taken in by this, would they?

Anniebach Sun 16-Oct-16 12:40:04

Perhaps, unless one has been diagnosed with cancer I think it is easier to dismiss these so called cures

Elegran Sun 16-Oct-16 12:47:45

anniebach I was diagnosed with cancer and recovered with treatment. My husband was diagnosed too late and it had metamorphosed to his lungs and liver, so further treatment did not cure it. But I would not have trusted an injection of unidentified blood products at an extortionate price from a woman in Mexico with no scientific knowledge whatsoever.

Jalima Sun 16-Oct-16 15:08:16

Oh my goodness.
Despite everything, I would not take an unregulated blood product from a dubious source!

Anniebach Sun 16-Oct-16 15:17:17

Elegran, I am just saying some may, not saying they should or shouldn't

Faye Sun 16-Oct-16 15:23:14

Both my parents died from cancer and I believe they both had unnecessary treatment.

Elegran Sun 16-Oct-16 15:49:43

Yes Ab in desperation some may choose to trust this kind of "treatment". It is sad that snake-oil pushers like this can take advantage of patients and their families and friends at such a vulnerable time.

vampirequeen Sun 16-Oct-16 15:52:23

They may choose to take the treatment but it's just ripping off desperate people who are grasping at straws.

Anniebach Sun 16-Oct-16 15:56:00

Elegran, l think they should be jailed , that cure! could cause the most awful results and they are putting people who are so desperate and fearful into such danger , if people choose hands in healing etc, that's fine but injecting blood products ,no way

sunseeker Sun 16-Oct-16 16:55:46

When my late husband was diagnosed with cancer a "friend" kept sending us links to a website which claimed to have a cure, which could only be bought from them at a huge price! I tried telling her that if they had really found a cure the world would be beating a path to their door. The problem is after he died I kept wondering whether we should have bought it and feeling very guilty for not doing so. Logic tells me it was a scam, but that doesn't help - these people are amongst the lowest of the low.

chelseababy Sun 16-Oct-16 18:57:18

Today's 5live investigates was on this very topic.

janeainsworth Sun 16-Oct-16 19:27:55

Sunseeker There is nothing for you to feel guilty about. As Tim Minchin put it, once 'alternative' medicine works, it becomes mainstream.
All you would have bought would have been false hope, which wouldn't have helped your DH at all. flowers