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Alternative Medicine is absolutely big business, and likely to get bigger, because it's largely untested, unregulated, and unuseful. Sorry about the neologism, but I was going for the alliteration.
I know someone who has a very aggressive cancer, and instead of pursuing "Nasty Western Medicine" this very dear woman has been going to Mexico and paying $20K up front to spend some time in a hyperbaric chamber. Somehow she even got her boss to fund one of these excursions.
She says she feels great.
Of course she does. You always feel great when you are laying around in an oxygen rich environment. Feels wonderful. You get an excellent sense of well-being from it.
But that's about it, at least with respect to breast cancer that's metastisized to the brain and lymph nodes. Hyperbaric chambers are great for tissue growth after extensive damage to the epidermis, but damn little else.
Despite her feeling good, I honestly doubt she'll make it past November.
I'd love to be wrong.
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