Can cancer be cured by meditation and “natural therapy”?: A critical review of the book You can conquer cancer by Ian Gawler (for editorial comment, see page 607)

Hypothesis. The importance of a histological diagnosis when diagnosing and treating advanced cancer. Famous patient recovery may not have been from metastatic disease

“…This is that the patient, having been cured of localised high‐grade osteogenic sarcoma of the leg by surgery in 1975, then developed advanced TB alone without metastatic cancer. The possibility of inaccuracy in the patient's diagnosis has been alluded to previously 10 . Under this hypothesis, which we believe to be the most likely of the three, the patient's illness may have been wrongly labelled as advanced metastatic cancer for 3 years before TB was diagnosed and successfully treated in 1978–1979.…”

“…The possibility of inaccuracy in the patient's diagnosis has been alluded to previously. 10 Under this hypothesis, which we believe to be the most likely of the three, the patient's illness may have been wrongly labelled as advanced metastatic cancer for 3 years before TB was diagnosed and successfully treated in 1978-1979.…”

Lack of adherence to scientific principles of objectivity

“… Haines was the treating physician for the ‘famous patient's’ father who died of bowel cancer. Lowenthal has been a critic of ‘the famous patient’ in the medical literature and the media for many years 2–4 The authors have gathered their version of the history and timelines involved, not directly from the treating doctors, or the patient's actual medical records, but from drawing heavily on the patient's ex‐wife who has pursued many avenues to discredit the ‘famous patient’ since their separation in 1997. …”

“…Lowenthal has been a critic of ‘the famous patient’ in the medical literature and the media for many years 2–4 …”