A cancer diagnosis is an awful thing. Cancer isn’t simply devastating news for the patient – its consequences ripple through groups of family and friends spreading fear and uncertainty of what the future will bring. While cancer research and treatment has come a huge way since the earlier part of this century, many types of cancer are still largely deadly. It is therefore not completely irrational for people to look for solutions to their health problems outside the boundaries of conventional medicine. People in stressful and desperate situations tend to cling at whatever hope is sent their way, no matter
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