Open AccessQuestionable methods of cancer management: The Committee for Freedomof Choice in Medicine, Inc.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.43.2.117
Subject(s) - citation , politics , freedom of choice , medicine , cancer , political science , law , library science , family medicine , computer science
The Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine is the political arm ofseveral interlocking corporations promoting and/or marketing questionableremedies for cancer and other serious diseases. Operating during the 1970sas the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, the organizationfought for legalization of laetrile and claimed to have many members. Todaythe Committee appears to be a small group whose principal activities arespeeches and press conferences by its leaders, protests to governmentagencies, and publication of a small‐circulation newsletter.