title: Cancer quackery: the persistent popularity of useless, irrational 'alternative' treatments.
abstract: At a time when many readily believe that vaccines cause autism, or that government scientists created AIDS as a weapon of black genocide, it is not surprising that medical quackery, especially cancer quackery, remains a flourishing and lucrative business throughout the developed world. This review provides a brief recap of its history and an overview of the various types of unproven or disproved cancer therapies popular now in the United States and elsewhere.
authors.affiliation: Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA. cassileth@MSKCC.org
authors.forename: Barrie R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Cassileth
authors.forename: Ian R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Yarett
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011781:Quackery / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States