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Thank you for moving my thread about cancer. I realise you are a support site for nurses. I just wanted to see what nurses who deal with cancer on a day to day basis think about the conventional treatments.

Hi, I have read what has been said here some years ago about the flaxseed oil/cottage cheese diet to cure cancer developed by Dr Joanna Budwig. I have recently been told that I may have cancer and have been following this diet for two months. It costs about 20 dollars a week in flax oil and cottage cheese and there is a Yahoo Group for people on the diet. [incidentally the Quack Watch site now says nothing about the Budwig diet]. My experience with friends and family of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy is that they do not cure cancer and are harmful. If they do not produce a cure, it is difficult to judge whether the conventional therapies for cancer are worthwhile. Do the pain and discomfort deliver sufficient extra life and of a good quality. Instinctively I am with Hippocrates when he said "First do no harm". What do other people think?