This article in particular raises some valid and well known questions
about western diet, but in an unscientific manner, and certainly does
not provide any answers.  The use of statistics is seriously flawed, for
example as breast cancer is mostly a disease of old age, incidence
statistics are useless unless one controls for longevity.  In a country
where life expectancy is say 45, one would expect a pretty low incidence
of bc, and alternatively if you cure everything else, then cancer will
get everyone in the end.

It would be easy to do a clinical trial a) looking at the outcomes of
cancer patients who voluntarily gave up or already avoided dairy
products, and b) recruiting random patients and persuading them to avoid
dairy foods.  No such evidence is presented here, so the conclusion is
that it probably wouldn't get the desired result.  Existing research
does not support the theory, see for example

http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/raterisk/risks73.html

The site in general periodically gets promoted by posts to this and
other newsgroups and tends to be characterised by some plausible
arguments followed through specious logic to very unlikely conclusions,
which result in an attempt to part the reader from some cash.

Looking on the internet for things that will lower cancer risk is like
looking for a needle in a haystack, when you don't even know how to tell
the difference between needles and hay.

If a product is offered for sale which cannot produce evidence of
clinical trials and peer-reviewed statistical proof of its
effectiveness, then in all likelihood it doesn't work.  Of course the
promoter will explain that there is a conspiracy to prevent the cure
from being brought to the public, usually by drug companies to prevent
unpatentable cures from undermining their business, or by health
insurance companies to promote business for hospitals.  The first
argument only works in rare cases where an existing approved drug can be
reused as a cure, the second is a US-centric view that doesn't work
internationally.

Tim Jackson

Having cancer is a terrible thing....  people are scared and try to
grab onto any lifeline they can see.  And unfortunately there are too
many opportunists out there trying to take advantage of these poor
individuals.  All kinds of lotions and potions....
And why are these 'great' discoveries not known by the general
population?  Because of the conspiracy by the established
pharmaceuticals and doctors? That's what they say.  To me it's
insulting and ridiculous.

Have you ever heard of Microsoft?  When they were first born, they were
nobody and who would ever need a computer at home, anyways?  Same for
Apple... a couple of guys in their garage came up with an idea.
Pennicillin?  Discovered by accident by.  Yet all these products are
household names used all over the world.  Why did they displace the
existing giants of their time?  because they work

Now these 'cures'  If they really worked... does anyone think the
inventor would not be all over the world distributing this?  Making
unspeakable amounts of money or just having the satisfaction of
changing the world?
Would the establishment really be able to suppress this?
Knowledge is contagious...  nothing can stop it

Michele,

I just want to add my two cents to this discussion. Please make note of the
non-medical references.  I've been reading this newsgroup for many years
now.  Most of the long timers remember our story.  My wife recurred over
five yrs ago with mets to her brain and lung.  Treated with WBR, SRS and
Herceptin/Femara for four years.  Currently on Zeloda.  Scans of two days
ago show stable disease in her lung, no disease in her brain or liver.
She's playing tennis this morning...

That being said, the biggest dietary change we've made is to remove
processed food and hormonally grown from our diets the best we can.  I'm not
talking about every last thing, but there are no frozen pre-made meals in
the house and all the milk is organic.

We took our daughter to France eight months after Sharon recurred and went
to the Loire Valley.  One of the interesting things I noticed was that all
the kings who lived in these castles 500 yrs ago had lived as long as 80 yrs
(with no real medicines btw).  I got to thinking about what their diet might
have been and came to the conclusion that they ate everything fresh.
We try to do the same thing.

Mark

If an alternative cancer cure was really effective, it would be
headline news on the front page of all the major newspapers.
So, unless you believe in a gigantic conspiracy being committed
by all the major newspapers... (draw your own conclusion).