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Volume 340:569-570 February 18, 1999 Number 7
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Alternative Therapies in Childhood Cancer

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To the Editor: Coppes et al. (Sept. 17 issue)1 point to the importance of educating parents about the dangers of alternative therapies, but it is also important to report parents to child-welfare authorities if the doctor believes that the parents' refusal to accept proven therapies may be putting the child's life at risk.


Ozzie Orbach, M.D.
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  1. Coppes MJ, Anderson RA, Egeler RM, Wolff JEA. Alternative therapies for the treatment of childhood cancer. N Engl J Med 1998;339:846-847. [Free Full Text]
 
To the Editor: We strongly agree with the assertion that alternative therapies must be subjected to scientific assessment.1 This is true not just when alternative treatment is chosen instead of conventional treatment but also when the two are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Alternative Therapies for the Treatment of Childhood Cancer
Coppes M. J., Anderson R. A., Egeler R. M., Wolff J. E.A.
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N Engl J Med 1998; 339:846-847, Sep 17, 1998. Correspondence


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