"I have much time for complementary therapy that offers improvements in quality of life or spiritual solace,"
wrote Baum, "providing that it is truly integrated with modern medicine. But I have no time at all for
'alternative' therapy that places itself above the laws of evidence and practises in a metaphysical domain
that harks back to the dark days of Galen."
Ref;Dr Daniel's 'miracle' cure
Sarah Ebner
Tuesday September 21, 2004 The Guardian
In the hard-hitting article ‘Epidemiology versus scare-mongering’, UK cancer expert Professor Michael Baum attacked health professionals for scaring women into unnecessary treatment. Baum has 30 years of experience as a breast-cancer surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital and, in his view, if left untreated, as many as 80 per cent of all DCIS cases will never become cancerous (Breast J, 2000; 6: 331-4).
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The tamoxifen "breakthrough" was seen as nothing more than hype by Professor Michael Baum, a British authority on breast cancer:"This is not the way one goes about promoting scientific results." ref; the trouble with tamoxifen Article by Dr. Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc
Michael Baum, emeritus professor of surgery at University College London and a cancer screening expert,
calls the research "absolute dynamite. Any intelligent woman reading that would make an informed decision not
to go for cervical screening". ref;Thursday May 22, 2003The Guardian article; Why I'll never have another smear
test
From Michael Baum, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at University College, London. Contained in an article
entitled "Life Saver" about the benefits of the cancer chemotherapy drug, Tamoxifen: "If you delay a death
from breast cancer for long enough, a patient will die of something else. Cancer is an inevitable process of
ageing and, instead of trying to "cure" it, we should simply try to control it for the natural span of someone's
life."
Telegraph Magazine, 17th November 2001
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