Thank you for the posts and the thoughts John and others.
Yes your post is thought provoking and there are many things that conventional science and medicine struggle to explain or deal with. My concern with alternative treatments are that many/most of them struggle to demonstrate their efficacy in properly controlled double blinded trials, something that all medicines have to be able to do before they are inflicted upon people. (for a debunking of homoeopathy and its principle adherents try here
http://www.badscience.net/ - he also has plenty to say about nutritionists).
Do not get me wrong I firmly believe that we are what we eat etc. and the more natural, unprocessed and unadulterated the food and drink we consume the better for us, I also believe that in the western world we generally eat too much meat and too much dairy products and ought to be substituting them with fruit and veg. By the way my partner has been a vegetarian for over 30 years and I have been one for over 20 now)
Lets be honest cancer is only treated by killing cancer cells and by killing them quickly, whilst limiting the damage to the rest of the healthy cells in the body. There are many ways to do this including the conventional medical approach of chemo and/or radio therapy, there are also non conventional/alternative treatments such as the Budwig protocol and its variants. All of these treatments can and often do deliver a heavy toxic load to the body and need to be managed properly in consultation with healthcare professionals. Certainly the Budwig protocol has a long history and track record of very positive results in many people, though Johanna Budwig was a bit of an eccentric old bird and seemed particularly in favour of delivering flax oil enemas to her patients.