re can t breathe in article mar tijc uucp pjs tijc uucp paul schmidt writes i think it is important to verify all procedures with proper studies to show their worthiness and risk i just read an interesting tidbit that of the medical treatments are unproven and not based on scientific fact for example many treatments of prostate cancer are unproven and the treatment may be more dangerous than the disease according to the article i read where did you read this i don t think this is true i think most medical treatments are based on science although it is difficult to prove anything with certitude it is true that there are some things that have just been found to work but we have no good explanation for why but almost everything does have a scientific rationale the most common treatment for prostate cancer is probably hormone therapy it has been proven to work so have radiation and chemotherapy what treatments did the article say are not proven gordon banks n jxp skepticism is the chastity of the intellect and geb cadre dsl pitt edu it is shameful to surrender it too soon
