Choosing alternative cancer therapy doubles risk of death, study says
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/health/alternative-vs-conventional-cancer-treatment-study/index.html
重点摘录：
Conventional medical treatments include surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, while any other unproven cancer treatment administered by non-medical personnel would be considered an alternative therapy。。。
Patients who received alternative medicine instead of chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation had a 2½-times greater risk of dying during the 5½-year followup period than those who opted for conventional treatment, the team discovered.
"We identified people who were more likely to choose alternative medicines," Johnson said. "And it's usually people who have a higher income, who are more well-educated, who are healthier and who live in the West and Pacific regions of the US. We have this group of people we know who are doing this; we don't know why.
"You'd assume that someone who is more well-educated, they have an understanding of science and medicine, they'd be less likely to make a choice like this, but that's clearly not true, based on this data," he said.
（Yale School of Medicine's Dr. Skyler Johnson, lead author of the study, who reported no conflicts of interest, though two of his three co-authors have received research funding from the pharmaceutical companies 21st Century Oncology, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic and Pfizer.）
