Re:Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology
by ksaun on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:21PM
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When the expected outcome from receiving standard of care treatment is the death of you or a loved one (which is sometimes the case with cancer), then you may have a higher tolerance for risk than the healthcare system.
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It goes the other way too. Steve Jobs would still be alive if he didn't eschew his doctor's advice and dip into alternative medicine that he truly believed was the correct solution, and he is not a dumb man.
From what I've read (including [1]), it is unknown whether Steve Jobs's decision affected the ultimate outcome or even its timing. (I.e., I object to the claim that we know that he would still be alive if he'd agreed to the surgery sooner. It seems that it's possible, but that we can't know definitively.)
Who cares, it was his option to pursue. Everyone's free to not take treatment regardless of the potential benefit. Hell you can go to the store and buy cigarettes. However, if you wish to avail yourself of a treatment that isn't standard of care, you're going to have a bad time unless you can find a clinical trial and magically pass both the inclusion and exclusion criteria.