FWIW, my Indian friend says there's a medicine for cancer in South India with Siddha. When I searched http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddha_medicine some editors seem to have removed references to cancer from the article.
We know how cancers work to a pretty good level of detail. This means that it can be fairly straightforward to classify many treatments as ineffective.
The other point is that cancer research is incredibly well funded by non-partisan, non-commerical organisations (charities like Cancer Research UK don't have an active stake in one approach over another). The notion that these alternative remedies are being wilfully ignored doesn't stand up to any remotely rigorous evaluation.
> We know how cancers work to a pretty good level of detail.
IIRC, Steve Jobs was survived with alternative medicine for sometime than surgery. So, I'm more interested to know any research conducted on alternative medicines (to prove that they're wrong and ineffective). As it seems to work for Indians this can better be tried like yoga
