Bogus nutrition cures for cancer: dealing with incurable believers
A summary report describes and critiques fraudulent nutritional fads for curing cancer and the characteristics of terminally-ill cancer patients that make them susceptible to such fads. Specific attention is given to discussions of: patient characteristics; the adoption of unconventional methods by...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Topics in clinical nutrition 1987-04, Vol.2 (2), p.47-54 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A summary report describes and critiques fraudulent nutritional fads for curing cancer and the characteristics of terminally-ill cancer patients that make them susceptible to such fads. Specific attention is given to discussions of: patient characteristics; the adoption of unconventional methods by patients; and 6 types of prevalent unorthodox methods. The nutritional inadequacies of these unorthodox approaches are detailed |
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| ISSN: | 0883-5691 1550-5146 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00008486-198704000-00009 |