If you have someone in your life who is thinking like this and you can get them to read it I highly recommend "The Emporer of All Maladies".
It's not a debunking book. It doesn't even address alternative treatments at all. It is a kind of biography of cancer.
I think it can help because it puts faces to some of the people who have developed cancer treatments over the years. And it really demystifies the work pharmaceutical researches have done to develop chemotherapy.
It's from this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography/dp/...
Highly recommended reading, BTW, though it's a bit depressing.
For the average to go up only four months either we're doing really well against a tiny percentage of cancers or we're doing generally a tiny bit better against most cancers. Or some combination of the two. Either way you look at it that's an indication of lack of progress.
I just finished the cancer biography "The Emperor of All Maladies" today, and it goes into molecular medicine in the final part. It's a quick read (or else I was particularly interested and read it fast). I highly recommend it in general:
It's not a debunking book. It doesn't even address alternative treatments at all. It is a kind of biography of cancer.
I think it can help because it puts faces to some of the people who have developed cancer treatments over the years. And it really demystifies the work pharmaceutical researches have done to develop chemotherapy.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439170916/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_Z...
Here's the link without the affiliate code: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439170916
Highly recommended reading, BTW, though it's a bit depressing.
For the average to go up only four months either we're doing really well against a tiny percentage of cancers or we're doing generally a tiny bit better against most cancers. Or some combination of the two. Either way you look at it that's an indication of lack of progress.
https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer...