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June 17, 2008, 9:56 pm
Flag as Inappropriate Klara
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Fraudulent cancer treatments
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The FDA has decided that they will no longer sit aside and watch people claim that their products have special properties to heal cancer patients. These include teas, supplements, creams among others that claim to prevent or cure the disease.
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June 17, 2008, 10:35 pm
Flag as Inappropriate Ayshala says...
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FINALLY! It is so sad to watch desperate people throw what little money they have away! Those fake cancer treatments should've been banned long ago, and every person who sold them should have been charged with a crime. It's nothing but feeding off sadness and heartache!
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June 18, 2008, 4:12 am
Flag as Inappropriate bubble says...
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Well said. It is so sad that people seem to think it is okay to give false hope and rip off those who are vunerable. Action should have been taken against these sorts of products a long time ago.
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June 18, 2008, 9:50 am
Flag as Inappropriate lavender says...
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The problem is that the FD has long said it would only police medications and not supplements and required that there be a difference in wording on the labels to show the difference. Although a supplement may say it is supposed to help cure cancer, it also carries a section about how these statements are not proved by the FDA. The same as any new thing added to vitamins before they are proven. I believe lycopene is still on that list...
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June 18, 2008, 11:04 am
Flag as Inappropriate fredkin says...
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That is good for cancer, but what about all the other things out there? I still see places that sell "pain relief" products and have been used the " " for sometime now in order to avoid lawsuits by the FDA.
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June 19, 2008, 12:53 pm
Flag as Inappropriate DianaR says...
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I am glad to hear this!
Event hough I will use natural substances for my problems, when possible, there are so many products saying they are the all natural cures for cancer that many people delay getting more aggressive treatment.
By the time they realize the product isn't working, it is too late. A cancer that might have been cured with selective chemotherapy, has spread so much that it cannot be treated.
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June 19, 2008, 10:14 pm
Flag as Inappropriate skatss says...
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It's good to hear that people will be protected from buying expensive products that claim to treat and cure cancer that really don't do any good at all.
Yet I fully understand why people need to think that something is out there that will help them. Cancer is a horrible, horrible disease that cause grief to the person who has it and their relatives.
My sister has colon cancer and even though I know that these products don't work in helping the disease I keep thinking that maybe, maybe there's something out there that will help her much more than her chemo treatments.
It's called desperation and hope and we all cling to those when there's nothing else around.
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