In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

Re:In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer by JMTQp8lwXL on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:39AM (#21158698)

It's incredible how much mindshare ideas like this get. If you could cure pancreatic cancer by mixing garlic with water, diluting several times, and then drinking it -- nobody would possibly have pancreatic cancer.

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Re:In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer by easytiger on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:49AM (#21158833)

One dubious use of homeopathic remedies in the UK was simply to take the burden away from Drs when certain patients kept presenting with phantom issues

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Re:In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer by UncleOxidant on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:29PM (#21159891)

Placebos do work for some things. Though not likely against something like Pancreatic Cancer.

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Re:In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer by heavenlyblue on Saturday October 05, 2019 @05:53PM (#21168211)

Placebos probably work for problems related to neural system (the less you are nervous the more healthy you are).

Taking Steve Jobs as an example here is a bad way to get healthy. Steve Jobs was simply used to listening to (back then) always smarter engineers. Medicine, however, wasn’t revolutionised the same way.

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Re:In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer by tyingq on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:44PM (#21160051)

Steve Jobs apparently tried a homepathic diet in lieu of surgery for quite a while. He did have the less aggressive type of pancreatic cancer (islet cell carcinoma vs adenocarcinoma).

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Re:In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer by enturn on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:00PM (#21162279)

I listened to Ashton Kutcher talk about how he tried to copy Steve Jobs by drinking lots carrot juice and he ended up in the hospital.

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