Unconventional Cancer Treatments

Download or read book Unconventional Cancer Treatments written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Technology Assessment reviewed the issues surrounding unconventional cancer treatments. The results of that study are contained in this report. Topics covered include the types of unconventional cancer treatment most available to American citizens and how people access them; costs and means of payment; profiles of typical users of unconventional treatments; legal issues; and the potential for enhancing our knowledge about the efficacy and safety of these cancer treatments. OTA also examined a particular unconventional treatment, Immuno-Augmentative Therapy, and designed a clinical trial protocol to permit valid evidence of efficacy and safety to be gathered.