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Did you know this happens when you get cancer?

During February 2017, Dr. Carol Coombes OBE diagnosed as a cancer patient with a ‘rare and aggressive’ tonsillar cancer.  As soon as she found out that she was a cancer patient, she started trying to change her life style in order to rebuild her immune system without adopting the conventional medical methods like radio and chemotherapy. She was hoping that she would succeed in this purpose, and with consistent monitoring and analysis from the NHS, be able to check on improvements.  But Carol was astonished to know that the NHS, the core public healthcare provider in the UK, is not able to discuss any kind of treatments outside Oncology (The study and treatment of tumors), due to The Cancer act 1939. This implies no data is being kept formally in the UK identifying with individuals utilizing alternatives and more traditional techniques, as Carol is doing.  So according to NHS, no cancer treatment can be given to anyone without having gone through full clinical trials.  No clinical