Homeopathy and cancer

THE Science section of The Daily Telegraph of June 24 carried an article (Knapton 2016) covering the current petition calling on the RCVS to ban veterinary surgeons from practising homeopathy on animals (Chambers 2016). In that article, a British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons (BAHVS) spokesperson is quoted as stating: ‘The RCVS has made it clear that homeopathic treatment is an acceptable type of therapy when practiced by trained vets. You only have to look on our website and you will see examples of where dogs have been cured of cancer through homeopathy.’ This, in the science section of a respected national newspaper, could give the impression that the RCVS regards treating cancer with homeopathy as not only acceptable but sometimes curative. We believe that this casts the UK veterinary profession in a bad light. The BAHVS website's ‘cured cancer’ page (www.bahvs.com/cured-cases/) consists...

Source: Veterinary Record - July 14, 2016 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Whitehead, M., Chambers, D., Taylor, N., Jessop, M., Gough, A., Atkinson, M., Hyde, P., McKenzie, B., Guthrie, A. Tags: Letter Source Type: research