A non-profit organization providing information on alternative cancer therapies, including referrals, since 1976. One of the primary differences between conventional and alternative medicine is in how cancer is defined.
Conventional doctors see a malignant growth in the body and call that the cancer.
Consequently, their treatments consist primarily of attacks against the tumor. At that point, we are told that the cancer has returned, and the attack against the new tumors is repeated as before. By contrast, practitioners of alternative medicine do not consider the tumor to be the cancer, but merely the symptom of the cancer. They are more concerned with what caused the tumor to grow in the first place. They reason that it is more logical to fix the cause of the tumors than to attack the tumors themselves.