Newspapers today are full of stories of Elle MacPherson being in remission despite declining chemo, radiotherapy, mastectomy and hormone blockers. Apparently spent 8 months treating herself with alternate therapies 7 years ago. I find this reporting deeply disturbing as people will be filling oncologists’ offices thinking they can just cure themselves this way. Of course deep in the articles it’s obvious she had DCIS not invasive breast cancer, and that she did have a lumpectomy. Basically, she got lucky.
The fact she was at the time in a relationship with Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who was eventually struck off over his dangerous views on the MMR vaccine, perhaps says it all.
HI CodFish welocome to the forum. I agree with you, these types of stories do nothing to help anyone and lull people into false sense of security.
gail
