Health professionals have expressed repeated concern over claims that cancer can be cured by complementary and alternative medicines such as homeopathy, fad diets, “psychic healing” or other unproven cures.
The last Dáil did consider a ban on ads for so-called cancer ‘treatments’ to the general public, but it fell when an election was called.We want to find out what level of misinformation is being targeted at the Irish public around cancer ‘cures’, and the impact it has on the treatment sought out by those living with cancer.
We want to investigate the various certified training available in Ireland for complementary and alternative medicine practitioners.
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