Short Reviews: Shannon Brownlee

"Bad Science + Breast Cancer (non-fiction)" [permanent link]. An eye-opening article about what happens when an apparent cure for a disease is accepted without real proof that it works. In this case, the disease is breast cancer and the cure was a massive dose of chemotheraphy to kill the cancer cells; unfortunately, this also destroys the bone marrow. The chemotheraphy was followed by a bone marrow transplant to restore the marrow. The problem was inadequate evidence that the procedure can save more breast cancer patients compared to other procedures.
Read from August 2002 Discover magazine