Last week, at a converted 18th-century farmhouse near Derby, friends gathered in memory of Katie Britton-Jordan, who died recently after a valiant struggle against breast cancer. She was 38 and leaves a grieving husband, Neil, and Delilah, their five-year-old daughter. Neil, who announced his wife’s
death on Facebook earlier this month, called for the event to be a celebration of Katie’s strength and resilience. He asked friends to “bring smiles, love, dancing shoes, bubbles and sparklers”.
Patients who refuse conventional treatment and opt for alternatives are two and a half times as likely to die within five years of being diagnosed. David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist who specialises in breast cancer, and a crusader against “quackery” through his blog, Respectful Insolence, is convinced that if Katie had opted for conventional treatment, she would still be alive.
A similar stream of anti-establishment rhetoric around cancer – dismissing chemotherapy as “poison” – seems to be taking hold. Amazon Prime was recently found to be carrying unscientific “documentaries” purporting to show that cancer might be cured through dietary changes, including the story of a German woman, who claimed to have overcome cancer in 30 days using laetrile, a substance derived from fruit pits, which breaks down into cyanide in the body.
Trends come and go: one of the most popular alternatives doing the rounds until recently was the idea that you could “cure” cancer with maple syrup and bicarbonate of soda . Smith, from Leicester, who has two sons, Louis, 3, and Henry, 5, had surgery to remove the tumour, then six rounds of chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy. Once she started posting about her cancer on social media, the messages began. “Lots of stuff from people trying to sell you vitamins. They say all sorts of things: other people have taken it, and it’s done this and done that.
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