Unconventional therapies for cancer: 1. Essiac
clinical paper · 1998
SUMMARY
A literature review commissioned by the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative's Task Force on Alternative Therapies, covering Essiac alongside other unconventional cancer therapies. Finds some indication of possible benefit in individual anecdotal and preclinical reports but no definitive clinical evidence, and calls for controlled research. PMID confirmed via PubMed efetch (MEDLINE record) 2026-08-17.
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Peer-reviewed methodological review from the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative’s Task Force on Alternative Therapies, the first in a series assessing unconventional cancer treatments used by Canadian patients; used in this case to establish that even a research initiative sympathetic to investigating Essiac found no definitive evidence of efficacy as of 1998.