num_pages: 328
description: Focusing on alternative treatments that have had their basis in conventional medical research, author Penny Williams paints a compelling and chilling portrait of a North American medical establishment unwilling to look at new ways of treating cancer outside the traditional trio of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Through extensive patient interviews and opened clinical files, Williams builds an argument that some of these other treatments, particularly IAT (immuno-augmentative therapy), have an impressive empirical success rate. Nonetheless these successful approaches have been closed out of the North American clinical trial circuit because their discoverers butted heads with the establishment and lost. Never losing sight of the human cost, Penny Williams shares the stories of cancer sufferers having to hide their alternative treatments from their close-minded conventional doctors. She also shares the stories of patients lucky enough to have doctors who could see that the non-tradi
language: English
title: Toxic Treatment: Surviving the Cancer Wars
titlecomplete: Toxic Treatment: Surviving the Cancer Wars
publisher: Key Porter Books