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"Conventional medicine" being "medicine for which there actually exists evidence of it working."



source ?

don't forget : 51% Unknown effectiveness ..

http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp

one example "Unknown effectiveness"

"Pancreatic cancer New option(s) added for: Chemoradiotherapy for resected pancreatic cancer One long-term follow-up study added. It found no significant difference between adjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery alone for overall survival or progression-free survival at 11.7 years' follow-up. Categorisation unchanged (Unknown effectiveness), as the evidence is not strong enough to draw definitive conclusion."




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