In a control group of 658 patients treated with more conventional therapies or a placebo, 28 people died.
The rest can be helped to varying degrees by conventional therapy.
Eight of the patients with a complete response received no prior or concurrent conventional therapy.
You've needed help for months, and conventional therapy wasn't working.
Three weeks of prior conventional occupational therapy had produced little or no change.
Its primary use in cancer patients has been as an addition to conventional (standard) therapy.
The best they can hope for with conventional therapy is a 40 to 45 percent chance of living for five more years.
But the family rejected conventional therapy and instead used an herbal product.
Within a few months, the boy had become sicker, and the family wanted to switch to conventional therapy.
All patients had failed at least one conventional therapy.