Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Cancer Specialist Calls for Proper Clinical Trials

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 31st, 2000

The conflict between conventional and complementary cancer treatment may be resolved if only both sides could find a way of organizing properly funded, high quality clinical trials, attendees at a cancer conference were told.

Now a leading U.K. cancer specialist, Prof. John Smyth, is considering hosting a meeting where conventional and complementary practitioners can get together and discuss how to conduct the research. He told a news briefing at the 2nd European Breast Cancer Conference in Brussels, Belgium: "It is a priority that we get together and discuss this. Good trials are the intelligent way forward, but this type of research is really difficult. It isn't...

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