Spontaneous remission of cancer: A Turkish sample

Abstract

During recent years we started to hear about spontaneous remission/regression of cancer. If this is true, it carries the message of more hope for Ca treatment. Therefore time has come to determine the existence of such cases. Since Ankara is one of the cities where cancer is treated in Turkey, our study team decided to work with cancer treating .physicians in Ankara, trying to find out an answer to the question of "How many cases who had spontaneous remission in cancer could be detected" according to those doctors who could be reached. A questionnaire was prepared and given to 350 cancer treating doctors working in 3 university and 3 ministry hospitals. A total of 177 forms were collected by the 1st of April, 1997 out of whom, 36 were female and 81 were male physicians. Twelve physicians witnessed 28 remissions and 14, physicians reported 125 regression cases, both con-cerning various types of cancer. The results are given with tables and discussion made in the text.