Hoxsey Herbal Treatment
secondary literature · 2000
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SUMMARY
American Cancer Society patient-information page on the Hoxsey herbal treatment, from its Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods series (copyright 2000 per the page's own footer), fetched directly via a Wayback Machine capture (crawled 25 March 2008) after curl retrieval of the live documents.cancer.org URL. Covers ingredient list, escharotic risk, clinic history (including the 1949 libel suit outcome and the 1956/1960 FDA actions), and a review of the evidence: the 1946 NCI review of 77 case reports, the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine 39-patient follow-up study, and the ACS conclusion that no objective evidence supports efficacy. Established medical-nonprofit expert source.
NOTES
The American Cancer Society’s own historical patient-information page on the Hoxsey treatment, used for verbatim-quoted facts about the paste’s caustic risk, the 1949 libel-suit outcome, and the evidence review.