"The monks technique had the authority of Hippocrates and Galen, the ancient writers on medicine, and everyone agreed they must be right."

"...We do not aspire to such intellectual heights. We do not try to understand the body's humors. Just as a child sucks on a cut finger because that esaes the pain, so we administer cures only because they work. As to why and how these things happen, we leave that to the greater minds than ours. God's creation is too misterious for the likes of us to comprehend."

"...she would have to follow his orders...people would be made weaker by bleeding; starved people would be made thinner by purging; wounds would be covered with poultrices made of animal dung to encourage the body to produce pus. No one would care about cleanliness or fresh air."

from World without end by Ken Follett.

This was in the middle ages...

Apparently, establishment's attitutes hasn't much changed in a thousand years. In our days, like clergymen and monarchs in ancient times, powerful companies representatives are play the same old tunes...Would men ever learn from their mistakes?

From http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/immunotherapy.html

The concept of Immunotherapy is based on the body's natural defense system, which protects us against a variety of diseases. Although we are less aware of it, the immune system also works to aid our recovery from many illnesses. For many years, physicians believed that the immune system was effective only in combating infectious diseases caused by such invading agents as bacteria and viruses. More recently, we have learned that the immune system may play a central role in protecting the body against cancer and in combating cancer that has already developed. This latter role is not well understood, but there is evidence that in many cancer patients the immune system slows down the growth and spread of tumors.

At present therapeutic protocols are much articulated. Usually they use conbinations of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Target therapy is currently the new frontier and companies are developing molecules "specifically" (almost, in many cases..) directed against molecular features of tumors.Nanotech is considered  a technical step forward.

About conventional protocols one can find plenty of information at www.cancer.gov or at www.cancer.org, to mention only the most famous sites. Novel drugs are introduced into the market after having passed clinical trials, regulated by the FDA in the USA or the EMEA in the European Union.

From alternative-cancer.net an opinion we agree with...

In a word, fear. And, it may surprise you but they can't anyway.

The small percentage of MDs who do know about them sincerely wish they could, but they put themselves, and their clinics/hospitals, at legal and professional risk unless they use radiation, surgery and drugs alone. Not a happy message, but this is the way of the world and we must face it. Medical politics at the federal and state level rules our doctors. All MDs fear powerful government regulatory agencies, especially the federal bureaus.The pharmaceutical drug orientated FDA has a decades-long record of not approving, or even looking at, anything alternative - period.Again, this is the way of the world and you must face it.